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import FormalConjectures.Util.ProblemImports

/-!
# Ben Green's Open Problem 82

Let $A \subset \mathbb{Z}$ be a set of size $n$. For how many $\theta \in \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$
must we have $\sum_{a \in A} \cos(2\pi a\theta) = 0$?

This problem asks for the minimum number of zeros of the trigonometric sum
$\sum_{a \in A} \cos(2\pi a \theta)$ on the circle, over all sets $A$ of a given size.

*Reference:*
- [Gr24] [Ben Green's Open Problem 82](https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/greenbj/papers/open-problems.pdf#problem.82)
-/

open Real Set
open scoped Finset

namespace Green82

/--
Let $A \subset \mathbb{Z}$ be a set of size $n$. For how many $\theta \in \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$
must we have $\sum_{a \in A} \cos(2\pi a\theta) = 0$?
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I don't quite see how "For how many" is formalised here. Is this meant asymptocially or should we use the answer(sorry) mechanism?

can we just take f := fun n => 0 here and it will be trivially true?


We formalize this as asking for the infimum of the number of zeros of
$\theta \mapsto \sum_{a \in A} \cos(2\pi a \theta)$ in $[0, 1)$, over all finite sets
$A \subset \mathbb{Z}$ with $|A| = n$.
-/
@[category research open, AMS 11 42]
theorem green_82 (n : ℕ) (hn : 1 ≤ n) :
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n probably shouldnt be in the context as usual

⨅ (A : Finset ℤ) (_ : A.card = n),
({θ : ℝ | θ ∈ Ico 0 1 ∧ ∑ a ∈ A, cos (2 * π * a * θ) = 0} : Set ℝ).ncard =
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Better write this as an inequality and not take sup?

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This is not what the problem is asking. Why do you have to limit $\theta$ to Ico 0 1?

answer(sorry) := by
sorry

end Green82
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