Extremal behaviour of ± 1-valued completely multiplicative functions in function fields

Abstract

We investigate the classical Pólya and Turán conjectures in the context of rational function fields over finite fields 𝔽q. Related to these two conjectures we investigate the sign of truncations of Dirichlet L-functions at point s=1 corresponding to quadratic characters over 𝔽q[t], prove a variant of a theorem of Landau for arbitrary sets of monic, irreducible polynomials over 𝔽q[t] and calculate the mean value of certain variants of the Liouville function over 𝔽q[t].