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Liouville Random functions and normal sets

Number Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We define a random Liouville function (\lambda_Q) which depends on a random set (Q) of primes and prove that (A_Q = \{n \in \mathbb{N} | \lambda_Q(n) = -1 \}) is normal almost everywhere. This fact enables us to generate a family of normal sets such that the equation (xy =z) is not solvable inside them. Additionally we prove that equations (xy=z^2, x^2 + y^2 = square, x^2 - y^2 = square) are solvable in any normal set and for any equation (xy=cn^2) ((c > 1 ), is not a square) there exists a normal set (A_c) such that the equation is not solvable inside (A_c).

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@article{arxiv.math/0509315,
  title  = {Liouville Random functions and normal sets},
  author = {Alexander Fish},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0509315},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, to appear in Acta Arithmetica