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Reducing the Sarnak Conjecture to Toeplitz systems

Dynamical Systems 2019-08-23 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we show that for any sequence a=(an)nZ{1,,k}Z{\bf a}=(a_n)_{n\in \Z}\in \{1,\ldots,k\}^\mathbb{Z} and any ϵ>0\epsilon>0, there exists a Toeplitz sequence b=(bn)nZ{1,,k}Z{\bf b}=(b_n)_{n\in \Z}\in \{1,\ldots,k\}^\mathbb{Z} such that the entropy h(b)2h(a)h({\bf b})\leq 2 h({\bf a}) and limN12N+1n=NNanbn<ϵ\lim_{N\to\infty}\frac{1}{2N+1}\sum_{n=-N}^N|a_n-b_n|<\epsilon. As an application of this result, we reduce Sarnak Conjecture to Toeplitz systems, that is, if the M\"{o}bius function is disjoint from any Toeplitz sequence with zero entropy, then the Sarnak conjecture holds.

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@article{arxiv.1908.07554,
  title  = {Reducing the Sarnak Conjecture to Toeplitz systems},
  author = {Wen Huang and Zhengxing Lian and Song Shao and Xiangdong Ye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07554},
  year   = {2019}
}
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