Some notes on the pseudorandomness of Legendre symbol and Liouville function

Abstract

We improve bounds on the degree and sparsity of Boolean functions representing the Legendre symbol as well as on the $N$th linear complexity of the Legendre sequence. We also prove similar results for both the Liouville function for integers and its analog for polynomials over $\mathbb{F}_2$, or more general for any (binary) arithmetic function which satisfies $f(2n)=-f(n)$ for $n=1,2,\ldots$