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Order and Chaos in some deterministic infinite trigonometric products

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2017-08-29 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

This paper discusses some infinite trigonometric products which are characteristic functions of simple random walks on the real line; in fact, these define "random Riemann-ζ\zeta functions," a notion which is explained. The concept of typicality for random Riemann ζ\zeta functions is explained and connected to the Riemann hypothesis. Then it is shown that the distribution functions of these random walks are Schwarz functions. It is also shown that their characteristic function factors into the characteristic function of a Levy stable random variable and a subdominant fluctuating factor. As a corollary it also follows that amateur mathematician Benoit Cloitre's infinite trigonometric product n=1[23+13cos(xn2)]=eCx+ε(x),\prod_{n=1}^\infty \left[\frac23+\frac13\cos\left(\frac{x}{n^{2}}\right)\right] = e^{- C \,\sqrt{|x|} +\varepsilon(|x|)}, with ε(x)Kx1/3|\varepsilon(|x|)| \leq K |x|^{1/3} for some K>0K>0, and with C=sinξ22+cosξ2dξ; C= \int\frac{\sin\xi^2}{2+\cos\xi^2}{\rm{d}}\xi; numerically, C=0.319905585...πC = 0.319905585... \sqrt{\pi}. This confirms a surmise of Benoit Cloitre. The O(x1/3)O\big(|x|^{1/3}\big) error bound is empirically found to be accurate for moderately sized x|x| but not for larger x|x|. This difference ε(x)\varepsilon(|x|) between Cloitre's logn1[23+13cos(xn2)]\log \prod_{n\geq1}\left[\frac23 +\frac13\cos\left(\frac{x}{n^{2}}\right)\right] and its regular trend Cx-C\sqrt{|x|}, although deterministic, appears to be an "empirically unpredictable" function. Our probabilistic investigation of this phenomenon connects the fluctuations to the "random Riemann-ζ\zeta function with argument 2."

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@article{arxiv.1610.01441,
  title  = {Order and Chaos in some deterministic infinite trigonometric products},
  author = {Leif Albert and Michael K. -H. Kiessling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01441},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Final version; the conjecture stated in the previous version has been proved and the original theorem enlarged to absorb the new result. Accepted for publication in Journal of Statistical Physics