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How many Fourier coefficients vanish?

Let $G$ be a compact abelian connected metric group with Haar measure $\mu$ and let $f\colon G\to S^1$(=unit circle in $\mathbb{C}$) be a continuous function (not necessarily a group homomorphism) ...
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Fourier coefficients of Selberg polynomials

In Montgomery's "Ten Lectures on the Interface Between Number Theory and Harmonic Analysis" a bound for the Fourier coefficients of the Selberg polynomial $S^+_K$ is obtained by using what ...
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Non-commutative harmonic analysis on the discrete Heisenberg group

Question: Is there a linear map $\mathcal F$ from the Hilbert space of $\ell^2$ functions on the discrete Heisenberg group to some Hilbert space of functions $ L^2(\bigcup \{\Omega_n\}) $, such that:...
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Is there a physical/geometric proof for L^2 boundedness of Bourgain's maximal function along the squares?

One problem that has bugged me for some time (though I only seriously thought about it for a month several years ago) is to give a physical proof of the L^2 boundedness of Bourgain maximal function ...
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Fourier support condition in the paper 'A study guide for the $l^2$ decoupling theorem'

I'm currently reading Bourgain and Demeter's study guide for the $l^2$ decoupling theorem (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.06032.pdf). I have some trouble with understanding the proof of Proposition 8.4. ...
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Is this averaged exponential sum over primes small infinitely often?

Do there exist infinitely many positive integers $N$ such that $$\sum_{\substack{N/2 \leq q \leq N \\ a/q \notin \mathbb{Z}}} \left|\sum_{1 \leq p \leq N} \exp(2\pi i p a/q) \right|\leq |a|^{o(1)} N^...
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Examples of the large sieve inequality where a constant larger than 1 is needed

Let $S(x) = \sum_{n=0}^{N-1} a_n e^{2 \pi i n x}$ be a trigonometric polynomial of length $N$. The analytic/harmonic large sieve inequality in its sharpest form states that $$ \sum_{r=1}^R |S(x_r)|^2 ...
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An Exponential Sum Restricted to Primes

Let $a,q,N$ be integers such that $N/2 \leq q \leq N$ and $a/q \notin \mathbb{Z}$. Is the following estimate true, and, if so, how can it be proved? \[\left|\sum_{1 \leq p \leq N} \exp(2\pi i p a/q) \...
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On Fourier coefficients of nonnegative function

Let $N$ be nonnegative integer, $F(x)$ be a nonnegative real Lebesgue integrable function defined on $[0,1]$. Suppose that all Fourier coefficients $c(\lambda)=\int_0^1F(x)e^{-2\pi i \lambda ...
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The Fourier transform of a function supported on $B_1$ is essentially constant on $B_1$?

I'm going through the last steps of Bourgain and Demeter's proof of the $l^2$ decoupling conjecture, but I'm unable to see how the first inequality in (43) goes through. I'll water down the question a ...
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Fourier transform of the critical line of zeta?

This was asked on MSE and got a lot of upvotes but no answers, so I'm posting it here. Is there a known expression for the (distributional) Fourier transform of the Riemann zeta function, taken along ...