Growth conjecture for partial sums of the triangular-number Möbius function

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Let T(i)=12i(i+1)\mathcal T(i)=\frac12 i(i+1) be the ii-th triangular number, let i≤Tji\leq_{\mathcal T}j mean that T(i)\mathcal T(i) divides T(j)\mathcal T(j), and let μT\mu_{\mathcal T} be the Möbius function of the poset (N,≤T)(\mathbb N,\leq_{\mathcal T}). Growth conjecture. There is a positive constant CC such that

∑i=1nμT(i)≤−Cn\sum_{i=1}^n\mu_{\mathcal T}(i)\leq-Cn

for all sufficiently large nn. This predicts a negative linear trend for the partial sums, unlike the corresponding classical Möbius-function sums; it is presented as an empirically motivated conjecture and remains unresolved.

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Rohan Pandey and Harry Richman, “The Möbius function of the poset of triangular numbers under divisibility”, arXiv:2402.07934 (2024).

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