Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jat.2025.106219
Tamás Erdélyi
We show that if is a sequence of numbers with , and then is NOT an ultraflat sequence of unimodular polynomials. This answers a question raised by Zachary Chase.
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