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Arbitrarily slow decay in the M\"{o}bius disjointness conjecture

Dynamical Systems 2022-02-22 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

Sarnak's M\"{o}bius disjointness conjecture asserts that for any zero entropy dynamical system (X,T)(X,T), 1Nn=1Nf(Tnx)μ(n)=o(1)\frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1} ^N f(T^n x) \mu (n)= o(1) for every fC(X)f\in \mathcal{C}(X) and every xXx\in X. We construct examples showing that this o(1)o(1) can go to zero arbitrarily slowly. In fact, our methods yield a more general result, where in lieu of μ(n)\mu(n) one can put any bounded sequence such that the Ces\`aro mean of the corresponding sequence of absolute values does not tend to zero.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2202.09491,
  title  = {Arbitrarily slow decay in the M\"{o}bius disjointness conjecture},
  author = {Amir Algom and Zhiren Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.09491},
  year   = {2022}
}
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