Joni Teräväinen and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Odd order cases of the logarithmically averaged Chowla conjecture“, submitted to J. Numb. Thy. Bordeaux. This paper gives an alternate route to one of the main results of our previous paper, and more specifically reproves the asymptotic
for all odd and all integers
(that is to say, all the odd order cases of the logarithmically averaged Chowla conjecture). Our previous argument relies heavily on some deep ergodic theory results of Bergelson-Host-Kra, Leibman, and Le (and was applicable to more general multiplicative functions than the Liouville function
); here we give a shorter proof that avoids ergodic theory (but instead requires the Gowers uniformity of the (W-tricked) von Mangoldt function, established in several papers of Ben Green, Tamar Ziegler, and myself). The proof follows the lines sketched in the previous blog post. In principle, due to the avoidance of ergodic theory, the arguments here have a greater chance to be made quantitative; however, at present the known bounds on the Gowers uniformity of the von Mangoldt function are qualitative, except at the
level, which is unfortunate since the first non-trivial odd case
requires quantitative control on the
level. (But it may be possible to make the Gowers uniformity bounds for
quantitative if one assumes GRH, although when one puts everything together, the actual decay rate obtained in (1) is likely to be poor.)
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8 October, 2017 at 12:29 am
Anonymous
If the shifts
are consecutive and their number
is allowed to grow (sufficiently slowly) with x, is it possible to improve the RHS of (1) by using also the Erdos-Kac theorem?
[I do not see a way to utilise the Erdos-Kac theorem for this purpose. -T.]
8 October, 2017 at 9:10 am
MZW
Small typo in the quoted title of the arXiv paper (2 “of”s)
[Corrected, thanks – T.]
20 October, 2017 at 10:44 am
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