Sums of the Möbius function over divisors #
Restricted Möbius sums over divisors and divisor antidiagonals, and the equal-size sign partition of the divisors of a squarefree number.
Auxiliary material for the formalization of M. Stoll, Galois groups over ℚ of some iterated polynomials, Arch. Math. 59 (1992), 239-244; upstreaming candidates for Mathlib.
Rewrites the antidiagonal Möbius product ∏_{ed = n} F d ^ μ e as a product over the divisors
of the radical n' = rad n: ∏_{t ∣ n'} F (k t) ^ μ (n'/t), where k = n / n'.
∑_{ed = n} μ e = 0 for n ≥ 2: the Möbius function is the Dirichlet inverse of ζ.
For squarefree n' > 1, the divisors of n' split into two halves of equal size according
to the sign of μ(n'/t).
Under a sign partition (Sp, Sm) of the divisors of n' = rad n (as produced by
moebius_sign_partition), the antidiagonal Möbius product ∏_{ed = n} F d ^ μ e splits as the
quotient (∏_{t ∈ Sp} F (k t)) / (∏_{t ∈ Sm} F (k t)), where k = n / n'.
For a level set {d : k ≤ g d} of a gcd-min function g, the antidiagonal Möbius transform
of its indicator (in the second coordinate) over n is 0 or 1; in particular nonnegative.
Nonnegativity of the Möbius transform of a gcd-min function. If g satisfies
g (gcd x y) = min (g x) (g y), then ∑_{ed = n} μ e · g d ≥ 0. This is the arithmetic core of the
integrality of the Möbius factors of a strong divisibility sequence.