Correlations of multiplicative functions with their partial sums
Abstract
Let denote the Riemann zeta function and let and respectively denote a multiplicative function and its corresponding summatory function. We consider the correlation where is arbitrary and is suitably chosen. Let and denote the M\"obius function and the Liouville function respectively while and denote their corresponding summatory functions. Under the Riemann hypothesis and simplicity of the nontrivial zeros of we show that and as where . These results combined with numerical observations suggest that there is anticorrelation between and as well as between and , where the correlation is computed using a logarithmic average. This would imply effective upper bounds on .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.02106,
title = {Correlations of multiplicative functions with their partial sums},
author = {Gordon Chavez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02106},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Preprint submitted to Int. J. Number Theory 04/2025, accepted 03/2026 with minor revisions