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Erdős Problem 259

Reference: erdosproblems.com/259

open scoped ArithmeticFunction.Moebius namespace Erdos259

Is $\sum_{n} \mu(n)^2\frac{n}{2^n}$ irrational?

This is true, and was proved by Chen and Ruzsa.

[ChRu99] Chen, Yong-Gao and Ruzsa, Imre Z., On the irrationality of certain series. Period. Math. Hungar. (1999), 31--37.

@[category research solved, AMS 11, formal_proof using lean4 at "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ster-oc/c7429943f6b3a634797dc8b2a3b01f2d/raw/8c6b5b7f08021f0aed2312542dd2e9ee7beaa6d6/Erdos259.lean"] theorem declaration uses 'sorry'erdos_259 : Irrational (∑' n : , (μ n) ^ 2 * n / (2 ^ n)) := Irrational (∑' (n : ), (μ n) ^ 2 * n / 2 ^ n) All goals completed! 🐙 end Erdos259