Correlations of the Möbius and Liouville functions with their partial sums
Let [Formula: see text] denote the Riemann zeta function; let [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] denote the Möbius and Liouville functions respectively, while [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] respectively denote their corresponding summatory functions. We consider the correlations [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is arbitrary and [Formula: see text] is suitably chosen. Under the Riemann hypothesis and simplicity of the nontrivial zeros [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] we show that [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] as [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text]. These results combined with numerical observations suggest that there is anticorrelation between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] as well as between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], where the correlation is computed using a logarithmic average. This would imply effective upper bounds on [Formula: see text].
Authors
- Gordon Chavez
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Number Theory
- Published
- 2026-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793042126500934
- Primary Topic
- Analytic Number Theory Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00