On consecutive values of the Liouville function

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Authors Adolf Hildebrand

Publication date 1986

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

consecutive valuesLiouville function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of primes (11N05) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

Review text

Let \(\lambda\) (n) denote the Liouville function; i.e. \(\lambda (n)=+1\) or -1 according as the number of prime factors of n is odd or even. A very plausible conjecture is for any given numbers \(\epsilon_ i=\pm 1\), \(1\leq i\leq k\), there are infinitely many integers \(n\geq 1\) such that \(\lambda (n+i)=\epsilon_ i\) for \(i=1,...,k\). The conjecture is trivial in the cases \(k=1\) and \(k=2\). In this paper, the conjecture is proved in the case \(k=3\). The proof is simple and ingenious, but it yields no clue about how to extend the result to \(k\geq 4\).

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