Shanks' bias in function fields
Number Theory
2025-12-22 v2
Abstract
We study the function field analogue of Shanks bias. For Liouville function , we compare the number of monic polynomials with and for a nontrivial quadratic character modulo a monic square-free polynomial over a finite field. Under Grand Simplicity Hypothesis (GSH) for -functions, we prove that is biased towards . We also give some examples where GSH is violated.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2509.16142,
title = {Shanks' bias in function fields},
author = {Seewoo Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.16142},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Accepted version, to appear in Journal de Th\'eorie des Nombres de Bordeaux