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Goldbach's conjecture for the Liouville function

True: for every even N>2N > 2 there are positive a,ba, b with a+b=Na + b = N and λ(a)=λ(b)=−1\lambda(a) = \lambda(b) = -1, unconditionally, with no analytic or conjectural hypothesis. The route reduces to a prime modulus, then uses λ(2n)=λ(3n)=λ(5n)=−λ(n)\lambda(2n) = \lambda(3n) = \lambda(5n) = -\lambda(n) to force λ\lambda to agree with the Legendre symbol on an interval, where quadratic reciprocity gives a contradiction; no sieve is used, which is how the parity obstruction is avoided. Two pieces of context a reader needs. Mangerel (IMRN 2024) proved that λ(a)λ(N−a)\lambda(a)\lambda(N-a) cannot be constant for N≥11N \ge 11; that yields a pair with opposite signs and so does NOT imply this statement. And the result has since been generalised: on the same MathOverflow question, Lingsen Meng gives an unconditional argument that all four sign pairs occur for every N∉{2,3,4,5,6,9,10}N \notin \{2,3,4,5,6,9,10\}, covering odd NN too, while crediting this work as independent and prior for the even case.

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Occurred: Sep 16, 2026

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True: for every even N>2N > 2 there are positive a,ba, b with a+b=Na + b = N and λ(a)=λ(b)=−1\lambda(a) = \lambda(b) = -1, unconditionally, with no analytic or conjectural hypothesis. The route reduces to a prime modulus, then uses λ(2n)=λ(3n)=λ(5n)=−λ(n)\lambda(2n) = \lambda(3n) = \lambda(5n) = -\lambda(n) to force λ\lambda to agree with the Legendre symbol on an interval, where quadratic reciprocity gives a contradiction; no sieve is used, which is how the parity obstruction is avoided. Two pieces of context a reader needs. Mangerel (IMRN 2024) proved that λ(a)λ(N−a)\lambda(a)\lambda(N-a) cannot be constant for N≥11N \ge 11; that yields a pair with opposite signs and so does NOT imply this statement. And the result has since been generalised: on the same MathOverflow question, Lingsen Meng gives an unconditional argument that all four sign pairs occur for every N∉{2,3,4,5,6,9,10}N \notin \{2,3,4,5,6,9,10\}, covering odd NN too, while crediting this work as independent and prior for the even case. parent of this event

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