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A069545 Liouville clusters: the number of successive occurrences of signs in Liouville function lambda(k); a(2n-1) is number of successive positive signs, while a(2n) is number of successive negative signs.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 1, 3, 6, 4, 1, 3, 5, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 4, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 3, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 5, 3, 7, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 4, 4, 1, 2, 1, 7, 2
Offset: 1

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Author

Paul D. Hanna, Apr 17 2002

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Comments

Related open questions. What is the limit of ratio: a(n)/n, as n->infinity? What is frequency distribution of integer k in the sequence; a(n)=k for what set of n?
Essentially this sequence is a run-length encoding of A008836. - Alonso del Arte, Feb 29 2012

Examples

			a(6) = 2 because the 6th Liouville cluster consists of 2 successive negative signs: lambda(7) = lambda(8) = (-1).
a(7) = 2 because the 7th Liouville cluster consists of 2 successive positive signs: lambda(9) = lambda(10) = 1.
		

References

  • H. Gupta, On a table of values of L(n), Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Section A, 12 (1940), 407-409.
  • H. Gupta, A table of values of Liouville's function L(n), Research Bulletin of East Panjab University, No. 3 (Feb. 1950), 45-55.

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Programs

  • Haskell
    import Data.List (group)
    a069545 n = a069545_list !! (n-1)
    a069545_list = map length $ group a008836_list
    -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 10 2014
  • Mathematica
    max = 227; lambdaClLens = {}; Module[{curr = 1, cl = 1, iter = 2}, While[iter < max, If[LiouvilleLambda[iter] == curr, cl++, AppendTo[lambdaClLens, cl]; curr = (-1)curr; cl = 1]; iter++]]; lambdaClLens (* Alonso del Arte, Feb 29 2012 *)
    Length/@Split[LiouvilleLambda[Range[300]]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jul 02 2017 *)

Formula

Related to summatory Liouville function (A002819): L(m)=sum_{k=1, n} (-1)^(k-1)*a(k) where m=sum_{k=1, n} a(k).

Extensions

Corrected a(46) and a(47), and added terms after that. - Alonso del Arte, Feb 29 2012