Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 12 2 iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
For the physical-space L2 norm use . By part (i) and the Parseval identity on a finite group,Split this sum into the large spectrum and its complement. Because belongs to the Bohr set in the question, for ,Consequently the contribution from is at most by part (ii). Outside , , and . Thus that contribution is at mostAdding the estimates provesThe argument also covers empty or empty . As usual the radius and threshold are nonnegative; a negative radius makes the premise empty whenever is nonempty. The estimate expresses Bohr-set almost periodicity of a convolution: a translation of a function by an element of the Bohr set barely changes the large Fourier coefficients on a finite abelian group, while the small ones have little total energy.