Biases in prime factorizations and Liouville functions for arithmetic progressions
Number Theory
2020-07-24 v2
Abstract
We introduce a refinement of the classical Liouville function to primes in arithmetic progressions. Using this, we discover new biases in the appearances of primes in a given arithmetic progression in the prime factorizations of integers. For example, we observe that the primes of the form tend to appear an even number of times in the prime factorization of a given integer, more so than for primes of the form . We are led to consider variants of P\'olya's conjecture, supported by extensive numerical evidence, and its relation to other conjectures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1704.07979,
title = {Biases in prime factorizations and Liouville functions for arithmetic progressions},
author = {Peter Humphries and Snehal M. Shekatkar and Tian An Wong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07979},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
25 pages, 6 figures