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Integral Means Spectrum for the Random Riemann Zeta Function

Complex Variables 2026-03-30 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Number Theory Probability

Abstract

We study the integral means spectrum associated with the analytic function whose derivative is the so-called randomized Riemann zeta-function, introduced some time ago by Bagchi. The randomized ζ\zeta-function, ζrand(σ+ih){\zeta}_{\mathrm{rand}}(\sigma+ih), is known to represent the asymptotic statistical behaviour of the random vertical shifts of the actual ζ\zeta-function in the critical strip, 1/2<σ1,hR1/2 <\sigma\leq 1, h\in \mathbb R, and appears in a number of recent works on the asymptotic behavior of the moments and maxima of the ζ\zeta-function on short intervals along the critical axis σ=1/2\sigma=1/2. Using probability and basic analytic number theory, we show that the complex integral means spectrum of the primitive of ζrand{\zeta}_{\mathrm{rand}} is almost surely of the form conjectured 30 years ago by Kraetzer, for the so-called universal integral means spectrum of univalent functions in the disc. The Riemann ζ\zeta-function and its random version have recently been rigorously related to the so-called Gaussian multiplicative chaos (GMC), initiated by Kahane 40 years ago. In the case of the holomorphic multiplicative chaos on the unit disc -- an important stochastic object closely related to Liouville quantum gravity on the unit circle -- we prove that the integral means spectrum of the primitive is almost surely also of the same Kraetzer form. However, we establish that neither the primitive of the random function ζrand{\zeta}_{\mathrm{rand}}, nor that of the holomorphic GMC are injective. Building on earlier work by one of the authors and Webb on the convergence of Riemann ζ\zeta-function on the critical line to a holomorphic GMC distribution, we finally provide an alternative derivation of the integral means spectrum for the random Riemann ζ\zeta-function.

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@article{arxiv.2603.26507,
  title  = {Integral Means Spectrum for the Random Riemann Zeta Function},
  author = {Bertrand Duplantier and Véronique Gayrard and Eero Saksman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.26507},
  year   = {2026}
}

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