It is known that $$ \cos(\frac{x}{2})\cos(\frac{x}{4})\cos(\frac{x}{8})\dots = \frac{\sin x}{x} = O_{x \rightarrow \infty}(x^{-1}) $$
Is it true that $$ f(x) = \cos(\frac{x}{3})\cos(\frac{x}{9})\cos(\frac{x}{27})\dots = o_{x \rightarrow \infty} (1) ? $$ If so, what is the rate of convergence?
It seems to me that $f(x)$ converges to zero, but very slowly. For example $f(1081882100) \approx 0.27$. I guess the reason is that $f(x)$ is the Fourier transform of the uniform distribution on the Cantor set $C$ supported in $[-1/2, 1/2]$, which is highly irregular. To see this, let $X \sim \mathcal U (C)$, then by the self-similarity of $C$, we have $$ X \stackrel{(d)}{=} X/3 + Y $$ where $Y \sim \mathcal U(\pm 1/3)$ is independent of $X$. So $$ \mathbb E[e^{itX}] = \mathbb E[e^{itX/3}]\cos(x/3) $$ From which we obtain $$ \mathbb E[e^{itX}] = \cos(\frac{x}{3})\cos(\frac{x}{9})\cos(\frac{x}{27})\dots $$