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A Strategy for Proving Riemann Hypothesis

General Mathematics 2007-05-23 v5

Abstract

A strategy for proving Riemann hypothesis is suggested. The vanishing of the Rieman Zeta reduces to an orthogonality condition for the eigenfunctions of a non-Hermitian operator D+D^+ having the zeros of Riemann Zeta as its eigenvalues. The construction of D+D^+ is inspired by the conviction that Riemann Zeta is associated with a physical system allowing conformal transformations as its symmetries. The eigenfunctions of D+D^+ are analogous to the so called coherent states and in general not orthogonal to each other. The states orthogonal to a vacuum state (which has a negative norm squared) correspond to the zeros of the Riemann Zeta. The induced metric in the space V{\cal{V}} of states which correspond to the zeros of the Riemann Zeta at the critical line Re[s]=1/2Re[s]=1/2 is hermitian and both hermiticity and positive definiteness properties imply Riemann hypothesis. Conformal invariance in the sense of gauge invariance allows only the states belonging to V{\cal{V}}. Riemann hypothesis follows also from a restricted form of a dynamical conformal invariance in V{\cal{V}} and one can reduce the proof to a standard analytic argument used in Lie group theory.

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@article{arxiv.math/0111262,
  title  = {A Strategy for Proving Riemann Hypothesis},
  author = {Matti Pitkanen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0111262},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages, realization that positive definiteness of the metric is possible and also implies Riemann hypothesis, Lie group theoretic analytic argument proving Riemann hypothesis