Minimum of cosine sum

· John Cook · Feb. 7, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
Summary
The blog post discusses the Chowla cosine conjecture, which posits that for a function f(x) that sums terms of the form cos(kx), where k is an integer from a set of n elements, the minimum value of f is expected to be less than -√n for large n. This challenges the known f(0) which equals n, focusing on exploring the minimum behavior of this function.
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