Essential bounds of Dirichlet polynomials

In this paper we have given conditions on exponential polynomials $$P_{n}(s)$$ of Dirichlet type to be attained the equality between each of two pairs of bounds, called essential bounds, $$a_{P_{n}(s)}$$ , $$\rho _{N}$$ and $$b_{P_{n}(s)}$$ , $$\rho _{0}$$ associated with $$P_{n}(s)$$ . The reciprocal question has been also treated. The bounds $$a_{P_{n}(s)}$$ , $$b_{P_{n}(s)}$$ are defined as the end-points of the minimal closed and bounded real interval $$I= [ a_{P_{n}(s)},b_{P_{n}(s)} ] $$ such that all the zeros of $$P_{n}(s)$$ are contained in the strip $$I\times {\mathbb {R}}$$ of the complex plane $${\mathbb {C}}$$ . The bounds $$\rho _{N}$$ , $$\rho _{0}$$ are defined as the unique real solutions of Henry equations of $$P_{n}(s)$$ . Some applications to the partial sums of the Riemann zeta function have been also showed.