Abstract:
For a real number α and a natural number N, the Sudler product at stage N is defined as
PN(α) = ∏1≤r≤N 2 |sin πrα| .
In my talk, I will focus on the asymptotics of PN(α) as N → ∞.
It is known that liminf PN(α) = 0 for almost all α, including all well approximable α. However, like in many cases in the Diophantine approximation, the most interesting situation is when α is badly approximable,
i.e., all partial quotients of its continued fraction expansion are uniformly
bounded from above. The result in this direction was obtained by Verschueren
and independently by Grepstad, Kaltenböck, and Neumüller. They showed
that for α = [0; 1, 1, 1, . . .] = (√5+1)/2 one has liminf PN(α) > 0.
I will survey results in this area and explain how the
behaviour of PN(α) depends on the Diophantine properties of α. I will also
speak about my recent joint result with Manuel Hauke devoted to the set of
α such that liminf PN(α) > 0.