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Eigenvalue Density, Li's Positivity, and the Critical Strip

Mathematical Physics 2009-04-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

We rewrite the zero-counting formula within the critical strip of the Riemann zeta function as a cumulative density distribution; this subsequently allows us to formally derive an integral expression for the Li coefficients associated with the Riemann xi-function which, in particular, indicate that their positivity criterion is obeyed, whereby entailing the criticality of the non-trivial zeros. We conjecture the validity of this and related expressions without the need for the Riemann Hypothesis and also offer a physical interpretation of the result and discuss the Hilbert-Polya approach.

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@article{arxiv.0903.4321,
  title  = {Eigenvalue Density, Li's Positivity, and the Critical Strip},
  author = {Yang-Hui He and Vishnu Jejjala and Djordje Minic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4321},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LaTeX, 18 pages; subtleties in convergence and branch cut added