Timeline for Mobius function of consecutive numbers
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| Nov 18, 2013 at 19:52 | comment | added | Russ Woodroofe | I'll comment that for the special case of the identity polynomial, this is the Mertens function. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertens_function . | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 15:44 | comment | added | David E Speyer | That would be my guess, but I'm not a number-theorist, just someone who reads blogs by number theorists. | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 15:25 | comment | added | Seva | I thus understand that no non-trivial estimates are known for sums of the form $\sum_{n\le x} \mu(P(n))$, where $P$ is a polynomial of degree ${\rm deg}(P)\ge2$? | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 14:51 | history | answered | David E Speyer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |