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The Chowla conjecture and Landau-Siegel zeroes

Number Theory 2025-05-27 v3

Abstract

Let k2k\geq 2 be an integer and let λ\lambda be the Liouville function. Given kk non-negative distinct integers h1,,hkh_1,\ldots,h_k, the Chowla conjecture claims that nxλ(n+h1)λ(n+hk)=o(x)\sum_{n\leq x}\lambda(n+h_1)\cdots \lambda(n+h_k)=o(x) as xx\to\infty. An unconditional answer to this conjecture is yet to be found, and in this paper, we take a conditional approach towards it. More precisely, we establish a non-trivial bound for the sums nxλ(n+h1)λ(n+hk)\sum_{n\leq x}\lambda(n+h_1)\cdots \lambda(n+h_k) under the existence of a Landau-Siegel zero for xx in an interval that depends on the modulus of the character whose Dirichlet series corresponds to the Landau-Siegel zero. Our work constitutes an improvement over the previous related results of Germ\'{a}n and K\'{a}tai, Chinis, and Tao and Ter\"av\"ainen.

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@article{arxiv.2409.10663,
  title  = {The Chowla conjecture and Landau-Siegel zeroes},
  author = {Mikko Jaskari and Stelios Sachpazis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.10663},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

20 pages; Published online in Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc.; The proof of Theorem 1.1 (Section 5) was divided into subsections for easier reading, minor text changes and corrections were applied, and a reference was added