陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「The structure of logarithmically averaged correlations of multiplicative functions, with a」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

Joni Teräväinen and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “ The structure of logarithmically averaged correlations of multiplicative functions, with applications to the Chowla and Elliott conjectures “, submitted to Duke Mathematical Journal . This paper builds upon my previous paper in which I introduced an “entropy decrement method” to prove the two-point (logarithmically averaged) cases of the Chowla and Elliott conjectures. A bit more specifically, I showed that

whenever were sequences going to infinity, were distinct integers, and were -bounded multiplicative functions which were non-pretentious in the sense that

已知结果和反例

for all Dirichlet characters and for . Thus, for instance, one had the logarithmically averaged two-point Chowla conjecture

for fixed any non-zero , where was the Liouville function .

证明或构造的主线

One would certainly like to extend these results to higher order correlations than the two-point correlations. This looks to be difficult (though perhaps not completely impossible if one allows for logarithmic averaging): in a previous paper I showed that achieving this in the context of the Liouville function would be equivalent to resolving the logarithmically averaged Sarnak conjecture, as well as establishing logarithmically averaged local Gowers uniformity of the Liouvil

for all odd and all integers (which, in the odd order case, are no longer required to be distinct). (Superficially, this looks like we have resolved “half of the cases” of the logarithmically averaged Chowla conjecture; but it seems the odd order correlations are significantly easier than the even order ones. For instance, because of the Katai-Bourgain-Sarnak-Ziegler criterion, one can basically deduce the odd order cases of (2) from the even order cases (after allowing for s

阅读时建议盯住的点

For the more general Elliott conjecture, we can show that

for any , any integers and any bounded multiplicative functions , unless the product weakly pretends to be a Dirichlet character in the sense that

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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