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The Hörmander-Bernhardsson extremal function

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Speaker: 
Kristian Seip
Zugehörigkeit: 
NTNU
Datum: 
Mit, 23/07/2025 - 10:00 - 10:50
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

We pin down the function $\phi$ of minimal $L^1$ norm among all functions $f$
of exponential type at most $\pi$ for which $f(0)=1$. The problem of describing
$\phi$ has surfaced in many different contexts during the past 35 years, including
analytic number theory and the study of prime gaps. Our work is inspired by a
remarkable 1993 paper of Hörmander and Bernhardsson. The talk is based on joint
work with Andriy Bondarenko, Joaquim Ortega-Cerdá, and Danylo Radchenko.

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