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We establish a connection between the L² norm of sums of dilated functions whose jth Fourier coefficients are $𝓞(j^{-α})$ for some α ∈ (1/2,1), and the spectral norms of certain greatest common divisor (GCD) matrices. Utilizing recent bounds for these spectral norms, we obtain sharp conditions for the convergence in L² and for the almost everywhere convergence of series of dilated functions.