Let $ -\pi=x_{0}<x_{1}<...<x_{m}=\pi $
be a partition of the interval $ [-\pi,\pi) $
And let $ s\left(x\right)=\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha_{j}1_{\left(x_{j-1},x_{j}\right)}\left(x\right)$ be a step function such that $ \alpha_{1}\leq\alpha_{2}\leq...\leq\alpha_{m}\in\mathbb{R} $
Where $ 1_{\left(x_{j-1},x_{j}\right)}\left(x\right)=\begin{cases} 1 & x\in\left(x_{j-1},x_{j}\right)\\ 0 & x\in[-\pi,\pi)\setminus\left(x_{j-1},x_{j}\right) \end{cases} $
I have to find a constant $ C $ such that $ C $ does not depend on $ s $ and the following inequality holds:
$ |\hat{s}\left(k\right)|\le C\frac{\max\left\{ -\alpha_{1},\alpha_{m}\right\} }{|k|} $
I already calculated the Fourier coefficients of the indicators, and it is given by:
$ \hat{1}_{\left(a,b\right)}\left(k\right)=\begin{cases} \frac{b-a}{2\pi} & k=0\\ \frac{1}{2\pi ik}\left(e^{-ika}-e^{-ikb}\right) & k\ne 0 \end{cases} $
I actually did find such $ C $, I managed to prove that for $ C=\frac{m}{2\pi} $ the inequality holds. Is it possible to find such $ C $ that would not depend on $ s $ or on the partition $ x_1<x_2<...<x_m $ ?
This is part of a guided exercise and I need such $ C $ for the next steps.
Thanks in advance.