Chowla's sign-pattern conjecture for consecutive Liouville values

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Let s≥1s\geq 1 and let (ϵ1,…,ϵs)∈{−1,1}s(\epsilon_1,\ldots,\epsilon_s)\in\{-1,1\}^s be a sign pattern. Chowla's sign-pattern conjecture. The set

{n∈N:λ(n+i)=ϵi ∀i}\{n\in\mathbb{N}:\lambda(n+i)=\epsilon_i\ \forall i\}

has natural density 2−s2^{-s}. This is the sign-pattern form of Chowla's conjecture; the case s=1s=1 is equivalent to the prime number theorem, while the full assertion remains open over the integers.

References

Primary source

Noah Kravitz, Katharine Woo and Max Wenqiang Xu, “The distribution of prime values of random polynomials”, arXiv:2512.03292 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1609.03435.

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