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Dynamical models for Liouville and obstructions to further progress on sign patterns

Will Sawin
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We define a class of dynamical systems by modifying a construction due to Tao, which includes certain Furstenburg limits arising from the Liouville function. Most recent progress on the Chowla conjectures and sign patterns of the Mobius and Liouville functions uses methods that apply to any dynamical system in this class. Hence dynamical systems in this class with anomalous local behavior present obstructions to further progress on these problems by the same techniques. We construct straightforward examples of dynamical systems in this class based on polynomial phases and calculate the resulting obstruction. This requires explicit bounds for the number of sign patterns arising in a certain way from polynomials, which is elementary but not completely trivial.

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Will Sawin. 2018-09-10. Dynamical models for Liouville and obstructions to further progress on sign patterns. https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03280

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