Rudin's conjecture explained

Rudin's conjecture is a mathematical conjecture in additive combinatorics and elementary number theory about an upper bound for the number of squares in finite arithmetic progressions. The conjecture, which has applications in the theory of trigonometric series, was first stated by Walter Rudin in his 1960 paper Trigonometric series with gaps.^{[1] [2] [3]}

For positive integers

N, q, a define the expression Q(N; q, a) to be the number of perfect squares in the arithmetic progression qn + a , for n = 0 , 1 , \ldots, N -1 , and define Q(N) to be the maximum of the set . The conjecture asserts (in big O notation) that Q(N) = O(\sqrt { N }) and in its stronger form that, if N > 6 , Q(N) = Q(N; 24 , 1 ) .^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Granville, Andrew. Nathanson, Melvyn Bernard. Solymosi, József. József Solymosi . Cilleruelo, Javier. Granville, Andrew. Lattice points on circles, squares in arithmetic progressions and sumsets of squares. Additive combinatorics. 2007. CRM Proceedings & Lecture Notes, vol. 43. American Mathematical Society. 241–262. 978-0-8218-7039-6 . https://books.google.com/books?id=9q6_O6AwAhQC&pg=PA241. arXiv.org preprint
2. 24900534. Rudin, Walter. Trigonometric series with gaps. Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics. 1960. 9 . 2 . 203–227.
3. LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics. 17. 1. 2014. 58–76. On a conjecture of Rudin on squares in arithmetic progressions. González-Jiménez, Enrique. Xarles, Xavier. 10.1112/S1461157013000259. 1301.5122.