Pilatte's eventual periodicity conjecture for binary multiplicative functions

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Let f:N→{0,1}f:\mathbb{N}\to\{0,1\} be a function, let E⊆TE\subseteq\mathbb{T} have positive measure, and consider the exponential sums

∑n≤xf(n)e(nα).\sum_{n\leq x}f(n)e(n\alpha).

Pilatte's conjecture. These sums are bounded uniformly for all x>0x>0 and all α∈E\alpha\in E if and only if ff is eventually periodic. The conjecture was communicated to the authors by Cédric Pilatte and is motivated by work of Fregoli. The paper proves it when ff is completely multiplicative, while the general case remains open.

References

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Pierre-Alexandre Bazin, Ihor Pylaiev and Fred Tyrrell, “Bounded Exponential Sums with Multiplicative Coefficients”, arXiv:2506.12845 (2026).

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