The distribution of weighted sums of the Liouville function and Pólya's conjecture

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2012.08.011zbMATH Open1305.11083arXiv1108.1524OpenAlexW2044518158WikidataQ123141633 ScholiaQ123141633MaRDI QIDQ1930115FDOQ1930115

Peter J. Humphries

Publication date: 10 January 2013

Published in: Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Under the assumption of the Riemann Hypothesis, the Linear Independence Hypothesis, and a bound on negative discrete moments of the Riemann zeta function, we prove the existence of a limiting logarithmic distribution of the normalisation of the weighted sum of the Liouville function, $L_{alpha}(x)=su{m}_{nleqx}lambda(n)/n^{alpha}$, for $0leqalpha<1/2$. Using this, we conditionally show that these weighted sums have a negative bias, but that for each $0leqalpha<1/2$, the set of all $xgeq1$ for which $L_{alpha}(x)$ is positive has positive logarithmic density. For $alpha=0$, this gives a conditional proof that the set of counterexamples to P'olya's conjecture has positive logarithmic density. Finally, when $alpha=1/2$, we conditionally prove that $L_{alpha}(x)$ is negative outside a set of logarithmic density zero, thereby lending support to a conjecture of Mossinghoff and Trudgian that this weighted sum is nonpositive for all $xgeq17$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1524

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann hypothesislogarithmic densityweighted sumlinear independence hypothesisLiouville's functionPolya's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonreal zeros of (zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)); Riemann and other hypotheses (11M26) Rate of growth of arithmetic functions (11N56) Other results on the distribution of values or the characterization of arithmetic functions (11N64)

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