TITLE: A conjecture of Littlewood
QUESTION [17 upvotes]: The following is a conjecture due to Littlewood.

For any set of distinct non-zero integers $n_1,\ldots,n_k$ the inequality
  $$\int_0^{2\pi}|1+e^{in_1x}+\cdots+e^{in_kx}| \, dx\geq C\log k$$  holds.

Has this proven to be true or false?
Update 1. An extension to finite fields can be found here

REPLY [25 votes]: This was proved by S. Konyagin [7] and independently by McGehee, Pigno, and Smith [13] in 1981. A short proof is available in [5].
[7] S.V. Konjagin, On a problem of Littlewood, Mathematics of the USSR, Izvestia, 18 (1981), 205–225. http://mi.mathnet.ru/eng/izv1556 
[5] R.A. DeVore and G.G. Lorentz, Constructive Approximation, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993.
[13] O.C. McGehee, L. Pigno, and B. Smith, Hardy’s inequality and the L1 norm of exponential sums, Ann. Math. 113 (1981), 613–618. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2007000