Chowla's conjecture on Möbius correlations

Let r1r\geq 1, let n1,,nrNn_1,\ldots,n_r\in\mathbb{N}, and let k1,,kr{1,2}k_1,\ldots,k_r\in\{1,2\}, with the kik_i not all even. Then

n=1Nμk1(n+n1)μk2(n+n2)μkr(n+nr)=o(N)\sum_{n=1}^N\mu^{k_1}(n+n_1)\mu^{k_2}(n+n_2)\cdots\mu^{k_r}(n+n_r)=o(N)

as NN\to\infty. Chowla's conjecture. The displayed asymptotic holds for every such choice of shifts and exponents. This is a higher-order correlation conjecture for the Möbius function; the source states that its only proven instance is the prime-number-theorem estimate given earlier, so the general statement remains open.

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Francesco Cellarosi and Ilya Vinogradov, “Ergodic Properties of k-Free Integers in Number Fields”, arXiv:1304.0214 (2013).

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