Local higher-order Fourier uniformity conjecture for the Liouville function

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Let s≥0s \geq 0. Let G\ΓG \backslash \Gamma be an ss-step nilmanifold. Let F:G\Γ→CF:G \backslash \Gamma \rightarrow \mathbb{C} be Lipschitz continuous and let x0∈G\Γx_0 \in G \backslash \Gamma. Local higher-order Fourier uniformity conjecture.

∫X2Xsup⁡g∈G∣∑x<n≤x+Hλ(n)F(gn−⌊x⌋x0)∣dx=o(HX)\int_{X}^{2X} \sup_{g \in G} \left | \sum_{x < n \leq x + H} \lambda(n) F(g^{n - \lfloor x \rfloor} x_0) \right | dx = o( H X)

as soon as H→∞H \rightarrow \infty with X→∞X \rightarrow \infty. Informally, the conjecture asserts that on most short intervals, λ\lambda does not exhibit significant correlation with any ss-step nilsequence of bounded complexity. It is needed to establish the logarithmically averaged form of Chowla's conjecture for all numbers of shifts; the paper does not resolve it.

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Kaisa Matomäki, Maksym Radziwiłł and Terence Tao, “Fourier uniformity of bounded multiplicative functions in short intervals on average”, arXiv:1812.01224 (2018).

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