On Bernstein's Inequality and Kahane's Ultraflat Polynomials

The investigation of norm Bernstein inequalities for polynomials with unimodular coefficients, leads to unexpected results. Some phenomena here upset our intuition. This paper closely revisits the ultraflat polynomials whose existence was conjectured by Littlewood in 1966 and proved by Kahane in 1980. A major role in this study is also played by arbitrary ultraflat polynomials, that is, including those that are not necessarily obtained by variations or refinements of Kahane's method.