Dynamical models for Liouville and obstructions to further progress on sign patterns

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2020.01.012zbMATH Open1464.37003arXiv1809.03280OpenAlexW3005536004MaRDI QIDQ2182149FDOQ2182149

William F. Sawin

Publication date: 21 May 2020

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

Abstract: We define a class of dynamical systems by modifying a construction due to Tao, which includes certain Furstenburg limits arising from the Liouville function. Most recent progress on the Chowla conjectures and sign patterns of the Mobius and Liouville functions uses methods that apply to any dynamical system in this class. Hence dynamical systems in this class with anomalous local behavior present obstructions to further progress on these problems by the same techniques. We construct straightforward examples of dynamical systems in this class based on polynomial phases and calculate the resulting obstruction. This requires explicit bounds for the number of sign patterns arising in a certain way from polynomials, which is elementary but not completely trivial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03280

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemssign patternsChowla conjectureLiouville function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Other results on the distribution of values or the characterization of arithmetic functions (11N64) Relations between ergodic theory and number theory (37A44)

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• Sarnak’s conjecture for sequences of almost quadratic word growth
• Around the Thom-Sebastiani theorem, with an appendix by Weizhe Zheng

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