Unbounded magnitude conjecture for 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}). Unbounded magnitude conjecture. For any positive integer MM, there is a positive integer nn such that

∣μT(n)∣≥M.|\mu_{\mathcal T}(n)|\geq M.

This formalizes the empirical observation that the triangular-number Möbius values attain arbitrarily large magnitude, in contrast with the classical Möbius function; no resolution is supplied.

References

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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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