Möller's conjecture on scaled averages of cyclotomic coefficients

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Let an(k)a_n(k) denote the coefficient of xkx^k in the cyclotomic polynomial of order nn, and let Mn(an(k))M_n(a_n(k)) denote the limiting mean value of an(k)a_n(k) as nn varies. For k1k\ge1, write

Mn(an(k))=6ekπ2.M_n(a_n(k))=\frac{6e_k}{\pi^2}.

Möller's conjecture.

0ek12,0\le e_k\le\frac12,

and

(1)k(ekek+1)>0.(-1)^k(e_k-e_{k+1})>0.

The source attributes these two proposed properties to Möller and later asks specifically whether the first is true; it gives no resolution status for the combined assertion.

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Primary source

Pieter Moree and Huib Hommersom, “Value distribution of Ramanujan sums and of cyclotomic polynomial coefficients”, arXiv:math/0307352 (2003).

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