The upper-bound conjecture for the density of zero Möbius values

Let dnd_n be the probability that the principal Möbius function value μ[π]\mu[\pi] is zero for a uniformly random permutation π\pi of size nn.

Upper-bound conjecture. The values dnd_n are bounded from above by 0.60400.6040.

This conjecture proposes a uniform numerical upper bound for the density of zeros of the Möbius function on permutations. The paper presents it on the basis of computational data through size 1212; no resolution is supplied here.

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Primary source

Robert Brignall, Vít Jelínek, Jan Kynčl and David Marchant, “Zeros of the Möbius function of permutations”, arXiv:1810.05449 (2018).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1806.10362.

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