Turán theory

P. Turán introduced [a52] and developed (see [a9], [a10], [a11], [a12], [a13], [a14], [a16], [a21], [a22], [a23], [a24], [a25], [a26], [a27], [a28], [a29], [a30], [a31], [a32], [a33], [a34], [a35], [a36], [a37], [a38], [a39], [a40], [a41], [a46], and all papers by Turán mentioned below) the power sum method, by which one can investigate certain minimax problems described below. The method is used in many problems of analytic number theory, analysis and applied mathematics.

Let be a fixed set of integers. Let be fixed complex numbers and let be complex numbers from a prescribed set. Define the following norms:

Bohr norm: ;

minimum norm: ;

maximum norm: ;

Wiener norm: ;

separation norm: ;

Cauchy norm: ;

argument norm: . Turán's method deals with the following problems [a91].

1) Determine, for ,

(a1)

where the infimum is taken over all complex numbers (two-sided direct problems).

2) Find the above minimum in (a1) over all complex numbers satisfying or ( "two-sided conditional problems" ).

3) For a given domain and , find

(one-sided conditional problems).

4) For a given weight function and , find

(weighted two-sided problems).

5) For a given domain and , find

(dual conditional problems).

6) Given polynomials and , , and , determine

and

(two-sided direct operator problems).

7) Given a domain and , find

and

where and are as above (one-sided conditional operator problems).

8) Given a finite set of integers, fixed complex numbers , , and two generalized power sums , , how large can the quantities

be made simultaneously depending only on , , , , and (simultaneous problems)?

9) Given two finite sets of integers and , fixed complex numbers , , , , and , what is

and what are the extremal systems (several variables problems)?

Turán and others obtained some lower bounds for some of the above problems.

Let be a pure power sum. Then

and

(see also [a4]). These results were obtained in the equivalent form with and , respectively.

Also, let , where . Then

(a2)

F.V. Atkinson [a2] improved this by showing that . A. Biro [a3] proved that and that if is such that , , then

J. Anderson [a1] showed that if , then , and that if is a prime number, then this lies in ; he also proved that if , then there exists a such that

It is also known [a43] that, on the other hand, for infinitely many and that for large enough .

P. Erdös proved that

where is the solution of the equation , and L. Erdös [a15] proved that if is large enough, then , where is the solution of the equation .

E. Makai [a44] showed that

For generalized power sums , Turán proved that if , then

Makai [a45] and N.G. de Bruijn [a4] proved, independently, that can be replaced with , where . If, however, one replaces it with for any , then the above inequality fails. Turán also proved that if , then

G. Halasz showed that for any ,

S. Gonek [a18] proved that for all ,

In the case of the maximum norm, V. Sos and Turán [a46] obtained the following result. Let . Then for any integer ,

with . G. Kolesnik and E.G. Straus [a42] improved this by showing that one can take . On the other hand, Makai [a45] showed that for

the inequality fails for some and .

Considering different ranges for , Halasz [a19] proved that if , then

Other norms and conditions.

The following results are obtained for two-sided problems with other norms and conditions.

A) ([a17], [a47], [a8], [a45]). Let be ordered so that . Assume that and . Then

B) ([a91]). Let be ordered as in A). Assume that and , let be the largest integer satisfying and let be the smallest integer satisfying (if such an integer does not exist, take ). Then

C) ([a12]). Let and let , , be such that

Then

D) ([a59]). If and , then

E) ([a8]). If and is such that , then there exists a such that

F) ((Halasz). Let and be non-negative integers, , and . Assume that . Then there exists an integer such that

G) (Turán). If , then the above inequality holds with instead of .

Problems of type 3) and 7).

Assume that , , with , let be real numbers, and let for . Define for some fixed complex numbers . Assuming that , Turán proved that and , where

and the minimum is taken over all integers .

If , then the above inequalities hold with

Also, if are polynomials of degree , and , then and , where

and the range of is .

Assume now that . Let be as defined above, and assume for , where and . Assume also that , . Take any , satisfying and define , by

(If or do not exist, replace them with .) Put and

Then and . If , then the above result holds with .

J.D. Buchholtz [a5], [a6] proved that if , then

respectively, where the last result is the best possible.

R. Tijdeman [a47] proved the following result for "operator-type problems" .

Let be fixed complex polynomials of degree and let . Then for every integer , , and , the inequality

(a3)

holds, where is defined above and the factor is the best possible; also, if , then (a3) holds with instead of .

J. Geysel [a17] improved the above constant to

Turán studied the other "operator-type problem" for . Let be fixed complex numbers and let be a polynomial with no zeros outside . Assume that , and . Then

(a4)

with

In case of the maximum norm and , Turán proved (a4) with

He also proved the following "simultaneous problem" . Let . For any integers and there exist a such that the inequalities

and

hold simultaneously.

References

[a1]	J. Anderson, "On some power sum problems of Turan and Erdos" Acta Math. Hung. , 70 : 4 (1996) pp. 305–316
[a2]	F.V. Atkinson, "Some further estimates concerning sums of powers of complex numbers" Acta Math. Hung. , XX : 1–2 (1969) pp. 193–210
[a3]	A. Biro, "On a problem of Turan concerning sums of powers of complex numbers" Acta Math. Hung. , 65 : 3 (1994) pp. 209–216
[a4]	N.G. de Bruijn, "On Turan's first main theorem" Acta Math. Hung. , XI : 3–4 (1960) pp. 213–216
[a5]	J.D. Buchholtz, "Extremal problems for sums of powers of complex numbers" Acta Math. Hung. , XVII (1966) pp. 147–153
[a6]	J.D. Buchholtz, "Sums of complex numbers" J. Math. Anal. Appl. , 17 (1967) pp. 269–279
[a7]	J.W.S. Cassels, "On the sums of powers of complex numbers" Acta Math. Hung. , VII : 3–4 (1956) pp. 283–290
[a8]	S. Dancs, "On generalized sums of powers of complex numbers" Ann. Univ. Sci. Budapest. Eotvos Sect. Math. , VII (1964) pp. 113–121
[a9]	S. Dancs, P. Turan, "On the distribution of values of a class of entire functions I" Publ. Math. Debrecen , 11 : 1–4 (1964) pp. 257–265
[a10]	S. Dancs, P. Turan, "On the distribution of values of a class of entire functions II" Publ. Math. Debrecen , 11 (1964) pp. 266–272
[a11]	S. Dancs, P. Turan, "Investigations in the power sum theory I" Ann. Univ. Sci. Budapest. Eotvos Sect. Math. , XVI (1973) pp. 47–52
[a12]	S. Dancs, P. Turan, "Investigations in the power sum theory II" Acta Arith. , XXV (1973) pp. 105–113
[a13]	S. Dancs, P. Turan, "Investigations in the power sum theory III" Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. , CIII (1975) pp. 199–205
[a14]	S. Dancs, P. Turan, "Investigations in the power sum theory IV" Publ. Math. Debrecen , 22 (1975) pp. 123–131
[a15]	L. Erdös, "On some problems of P. Turan concerning power sums of complex numbers" Acta Math. Hung. , 59 : 1–2 (1992) pp. 11–24
[a16]	P. Erdos, P. Turan, "On a problem in the theory of uniform distribution I and II" Indag. Math. , X : 5 (1948) pp. 3–11; 12–19
[a17]	J.M. Geysel, "On generalized sums of powers of complex numbers" M.C. Report Z.W. (Math. Centre, Amsterdam) , 1968–013 (1968)
[a18]	S.M. Gonek, "A note on Turan's method" Michigan Math. J. , 28 : 1 (1981) pp. 83–87
[a19]	G. Halasz, "On the first and second main theorem in Turan's theory of power sums" , Studies Pure Math. , Birkhäuser (1983) pp. 259–269
[a20]	G. Halasz, P. Turan, "On the distribution of roots or Riemann zeta and allied problems I" J. Number Th. , I (1969) pp. 122–137
[a21]	G. Halasz, P. Turan, "On the distribution of roots or Riemann zeta and allied problems II" Acta Math. Hung. , XXI : 3–4 (1970) pp. 403–419
[a22]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "The comparative theory of primes I" Acta Math. Hung. , XIII : 3–4 (1962) pp. 299–314
[a23]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "The comparative theory of primes II" Acta Math. Hung. , XIII (1962) pp. 315–342
[a24]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "The comparative theory of primes III" Acta Math. Hung. , XIII (1962) pp. 343–364
[a25]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "The comparative theory of primes IV" Acta Math. Hung. , XIV : 1–2 (1963) pp. 31–42
[a26]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "The comparative theory of primes V" Acta Math. Hung. , XIV (1963) pp. 43–64
[a27]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "The comparative theory of primes VI" Acta Math. Hung. , XIV (1963) pp. 65–78
[a28]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "The comparative theory of primes VII" Acta Math. Hung. , XIV : 3–4 (1963) pp. 241–250
[a29]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "The comparative theory of primes VIII" Acta Math. Hung. , XIV (1963) pp. 251–268
[a30]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "Further developments in the comparative prime number theory I" Acta Arith. , IX : 1 (1964) pp. 23–40
[a31]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "Further developments in the comparative prime number theory II" Acta Arith. , IX : 3 (1964) pp. 293–314
[a32]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "Further developments in the comparative prime number theory III" Acta Arith. , XI : 1 (1965) pp. 115–127
[a33]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "Further developments in the comparative prime number theory IV" Acta Arith. , XI : 2 (1965) pp. 147–162
[a34]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "Further developments in the comparative prime number theory V" Acta Arith. , XI (1965) pp. 193–202
[a35]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "Further developments in the comparative prime number theory VI" Acta Arith. , XII : 1 (1966) pp. 85–96
[a36]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "Further developments in the comparative prime number theory VII" Acta Arith. , XXI (1972) pp. 193–201
[a37]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "On the sign changes of " Topics in Number Theory (Colloq. Math. Soc. J. Bolyai) , 13 (1976) pp. 153–170
[a38]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "On the sign changes of II" Monatsh. Math. , 82 (1976) pp. 163–175
[a39]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "On an assertion of Cebysev" J. d'Anal. Math. , XIV (1965) pp. 267–274
[a40]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "Uber einige Fragen der vergleichenden Primzahltheorie" , Abhandl. aus der Zahlentheorie und Analysis , VEB Deutsch. Verlag Wiss. (1968) pp. 159–171
[a41]	S. Knapowski, P. Turan, "On prime numbers resp. " H. Zassenhaus (ed.) , Number Theory and Algebra , Acad. Press (1977) pp. 157–166
[a42]	G. Kolesnik, E.G. Straus, "On the sum of powers of complex numbers" , Studies Pure Math. , Birkhäuser (1983) pp. 427–442
[a43]	J. Komlos, A. Sarcozy, E. Szemeredi, "On sums of powers of complex numbers" Mat. Lapok , XV : 4 (1964) pp. 337–347 (In Hungarian)
[a44]	E. Makai, "An estimation in the theory of diophantine approximations" Acta Math. Hung. , IX : 3–4 (1958) pp. 299–307
[a45]	E. Makai, "On a minimum problem" Acta Math. Hung. , XV : 1–2 (1964) pp. 63–66
[a46]	V.T. Sos, P. Turan, "On some new theorems in the theory of diophantine approximations" Acta Math. Hung. , VI : 3–4 (1955) pp. 241–257
[a47]	R. Tijdeman, "On the distribution of the values of certain functions" PhD Thesis Univ. Amsterdam (1969)
[a48]	P. Turan, "Ueber die Verteilung der Primzahlen I" Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged) , X (1941) pp. 81–104
[a49]	P. Turan, "On a theorem of Littlewood" J. London Math. Soc. , 21 (1946) pp. 268–275
[a50]	P. Turan, "Sur la theorie des fonctions quasianalytiques" C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris (1947) pp. 1750–1752
[a51]	P. Turan, "On the gap theorem of Fabry" Acta Math. Hung. , I (1947) pp. 21–29
[a52]	P. Turan, "On Riemann's hypotesis" Acad. Sci. URSS Bull. Ser. Math. , 11 (1947) pp. 197–262
[a53]	P. Turan, "On a new method in the analysis with applications" Casopis Pro Pest. Mat. A Fys. Rc. , 74 (1949) pp. 123–131
[a54]	P. Turan, "On the remainder term of the prime-number formula I" Acta Math. Hung. , I : 1 (1950) pp. 48–63
[a55]	P. Turan, "On the remainder term of the prime-number formula II" Acta Math. Hung. , I : 3–4 (1950) pp. 155–166
[a56]	P. Turan, "On approximate solution of algebraic equations" Publ. Math. Debrecen. , II : 1 (1951) pp. 28–42
[a57]	P. Turan, "On Carlson's theorem in the theory of zetafunction of Riemann" Acta Math. Hung. , II : 1–2 (1951) pp. 39–73
[a58]	P. Turan, "On a property of lacunary power-series" Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged) , XIV : 4 (1952) pp. 209–218
[a59]	P. Turan, "Uber eine neue Methode der Analysis und ihre Anwendungen" , Akad. Kiado (1953)
[a60]	P. Turan, "On Lindelof's conjecture" Acta Math. Hung. , V : 3–4 (1954) pp. 145–153
[a61]	P. Turan, "Uber eine neue Methode der Analysis und ihre Anwendungen" , Akad. Kiado (1956) (Rev. Chinese ed.)
[a62]	P. Turan, "On the instability of systems of differential equations" Acta Math. Hung. , VI : 3–4 (1955) pp. 257–271
[a63]	P. Turan, "On the zeros of the zetafunction of Riemann" J. Indian Math. Soc. , XX (1956) pp. 17–36
[a64]	P. Turan, "Uber eine neue Methode der Analysis" Wissenschaftl. Z. Humboldt Univ. Berlin (1955/56) pp. 275–279
[a65]	P. Turan, "Uber eine Anwendung einer neuen Methode auf die Theorie der Riemannschen Zetafunktion" Wissenschaftl. Z. Humboldt Univ. Berlin (1955/56) pp. 281–285
[a66]	P. Turan, "Remark on the preceding paper of J.W.S. Cassels" Acta Math. Hung. , VII : 3–4 (1957) pp. 291–294
[a67]	P. Turan, "Remark on the theory of quasianalytic function classes" Publ. Math. Inst. Hung. Acad. Sci. , I : 4 (1956) pp. 481–487
[a68]	P. Turan, "Uber lakunaren Potenzreihen" Rev. Math. Pures Appl. , I (1956) pp. 27–32
[a69]	P. Turan, "On the so-called density hypothesis of zeta-function of Riemann" Acta Arith. , IV : 1 (1958) pp. 31–56
[a70]	P. Turan, "Zur Theorie der Dirichletschen Reihen" Euler Festschr. (1959) pp. 322–336
[a71]	P. Turan, "On a property of the stable or conditionally stable solutions of systems of nonlinear differential equations" Ann. of Math. , XLVIII (1959) pp. 333–340
[a72]	P. Turan, "A note on the real zeros of Dirichlet L-functions" Acta Arith. , V (1959) pp. 309–314
[a73]	P. Turan, "On the distribution of zeros of general exponential polynomials" Publ. Math. Debrecen. , VII (1960) pp. 130–136
[a74]	P. Turan, "On an improvement of some new one-sided theorems of the theory of diophantine approximations" Acta Math. Hung. , XI : 3–4 (1960) pp. 299–316
[a75]	P. Turan, "On a density theorem of Ju.V. Linnik" Publ. Math. Inst. Hung. Acad. Sci. Ser.A , VI : 1–2 (1961) pp. 165–179
[a76]	P. Turan, "On the eigenvalues of matrices" Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. , IV (LIV) (1961) pp. 397–401
[a77]	P. Turan, "On some further one-sided theorems of new type" Acta Math. Hung. , XII : 3–4 (1961) pp. 455–468
[a78]	P. Turan, "A remark on the heat equation" J. d'Anal. Math. , XIV (1965) pp. 443–448
[a79]	P. Turan, "On a certain limitation of eigenvalues of matrices" Aequat. Math. , 2 : 2–3 (1969) pp. 184–189
[a80]	P. Turan, "On the approximate solutions of algebraic equations" Commun. Math. Phys. Class Hung. Acad. , XVIII (1968) pp. 223–236 (In Hungarian)
[a81]	P. Turan, "A remark on linear differential equations" Acta Math. Hung. , XX : 3–4 (1969) pp. 357–360
[a82]	P. Turan, "Zeta roots and prime numbers" Colloq. Math. Soc. Janos Bolyai (Number Theory) , 2 (1969) pp. 205–216
[a83]	P. Turan, "Exponential sums and the Riemann conjecture" , Analytic Number Theory , Proc. Symp. Pure Math. , XXIV , Amer. Math. Soc. (1973) pp. 305–314
[a84]	P. Turan, "On an inequality of Cebysev" Ann. Univ. Sci. Budapest. Eotvos Sect. Math. , XI (1968) pp. 15–16
[a85]	P. Turan, "On an inequality" Ann. Univ. Sci. Budapest. Eotvos Sect. Math. , I (1958) pp. 3–6
[a86]	P. Turan, "On a certain problem in the theory of power series with gaps" , Studies Math. Anal. Rel. Topics , Stanford Univ. Press (1962) pp. 404–409
[a87]	P. Turan, "On a trigonometric inequality" , Proc. Constructive Theory of Functions , Akad. Kiado (1969) pp. 503–512
[a88]	P. Turan, "Investigations in the power sum theory II (with S. Dancs)" Acta Arith. , XXV (1973) pp. 105–113
[a89]	P. Turan, "On the latent roots of -matrices" Comput. Math. Appl. (1975) pp. 307–313
[a90]	P. Turan, "On some recent results in the analytical theory of numbers" , Proc. Symp. Pure Math. , XX , Inst. Number Theory (1969) pp. 359–374
[a91]	P. Turan, "On a new method of analysis and its applications" , Wiley (1984)