The quadratic inverse large sieve problem predicts that the examples sharp at the square-root threshold are essentially quadratic. Hanson proved the first unconditional result in this direction: if $A\subseteq[N]$, $|A|\gg\sqrt N$, and $|A_p|\le p/2+O(1)$ for every prime $p$, then $A$ contains $\gg\log N$ elements in the image of a single quadratic. We significantly improve this lower bound to \[ \exp\left(c\frac{\sqrt{\log N}}{\log\log N}\right). \] We also prove density-dependent variants, including a two-set version motivated by Green--Harper's robust inverse large sieve conjectures and their connection with the inverse Goldbach problem. Combined with a theorem of Elsholtz--Harper on hypothetical decompositions of the primes, our results show that any such decomposition would force both summands to have large intersections with quadratic images. Our proof combines a weighted entropy argument with sieve estimates, inspired by the recent work of Croot--Mao--Pohoata--Sheffer--Yip.
The Johnson--Lindenstrauss lemma asserts that every set of $n$ points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space embeds into $O(\varepsilon^{-2}\log n)$-dimensional Euclidean space with distortion at most $1+\varepsilon$. Larsen and Nelson conjectured that the optimal target dimension throughout the full range of the parameter...
For $m\geq 2$, let $c_p(m)$ be the all-dimensional best constant in $$ \left\|\sum_{k=1}^m A_k\right\|_p \leq c_p(m)\left\|\sum_{k=1}^m |A_k|\right\|_p. $$ Tang and Zhang conjectured an explicit formula for every finite $p>1$. We disprove the conjecture with two explicit real $2\times 2$ rank-one matrices at $p=3/2$. T...
Let $M_n$ be an $n\times n$ matrix with independent uniform sign entries. We prove that there exist absolute constants $C,c>0$ such that, for all sufficiently large $n$, \[ \mathbb{P}\!\left( \left|\operatorname{Per}(M_n)\right| \ge e^{-Cn}\sqrt{n!} \right) \ge 1-n^{-c}. \] This establishes the exponential scale lower...
We give explicit complex polynomials $P,Q$ in three independent standard real Gaussian variables such that \[ {\mathbb E}(P^m)=0,\qquad {\mathbb E}(QP^m)=m!\neq0 \] for every $m\geq1$. In natural complex linear coordinates, $P$ has five terms and total degree $4$. Hence the Gaussian Moments Conjecture is false in every...
For an odd prime $p$, let $m(p)$ be the minimum cardinality of a set $A\subseteq \mathbb Z/p\mathbb Z$, with $|A|\geq2$, such that no sum in $A+A$ has a unique representation as an unordered pair from $A$, with repetition allowed. Bedert proved \[ m(p)\gg \log p\, \frac{\sqrt{\log^{(3)}p}}{\log^{(4)}p}. \] We prove the...
Let $C_q$ denote the group of the $q$th roots of unity. A question arising from the work of Becker, Klein, Slote, Volberg and Zhang is whether the dimension-free Bohnenblust--Hille constants for functions on $C_q^N$ grow subexponentially with the degree. We answer this question affirmatively. In fact, we prove a strong...
D. Pellegrino, A. Raposo· 2 citations· ⚡1
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