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A definite recursive relation and some statistical properties for Möbius function

Published 15 Aug 2016 in math.NT and math.CO | (1608.04606v4)

Abstract: An elementary recursive relation for M$\ddot{\mathrm{o}}$bius function $\mu (n)$ is introduced by two simple ways. With this recursive relation, $\mu (n)$ can be calculated without directly knowing the factorization of the $n$. $\mu (1) \sim \mu (2 \times 107) $ are calculated recursively one by one. Based on these $2\times 107$ samples, the empirical probabilities of $\mu (n)$ of taking $-1$, 0, and 1 in classic statistics are calculated and compared with the theoretical probabilities in number theory. The numerical consistency between these two kinds of probability show that $\mu (n)$ could be seen as an independent random sequence when $n$ is large. The expectation and variance of the $\mu (n)$ are $0$ and $6 n/ \pi2$, respectively. Furthermore, we show that any conjecture of the Mertens type is false in probability sense, and present an upper bound for cumulative sums of $\mu (n)$ with a certain probability.

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