Asymptotics of signed Bernoulli convolutions scaled by multinacci numbers

Abstract

We study the signed Bernoulli convolution $$ν_β^{(n)}=*_{j=1}^n \left (\frac12δ_{β^{-j}}-\frac12δ_{-β^{-j}}\right ),\ n\ge 1$$ where $β>1$ satisfies $$β^m=β^{m-1}+\cdots+β+1$$ for some integer $m\ge 2$. When $m$ is odd, we show that the variation $|ν_β^{(n)}|$ coincides the unsigned Bernoulli convolution $$μ_β^{(n)}=*_{j=1}^n \left (\frac12δ_{β^{-j}}+\frac12δ_{-β^{-j}}\right ).$$ When $m$ is even, we obtain the exact asymptotic of the total variation $\|ν_β^{(n)}\|$ as $n\rightarrow\infty$.