Related papers: General covariant xp models and the Riemann zeros
Berry and Keating conjectured that the classical Hamiltonian H = xp is related to the Riemann zeros. A regularization of this model yields semiclassical energies that behave, in average, as the non trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta…
Riemannian geometry is a particular case of Hamiltonian mechanics: the orbits of the hamiltonian $H=\frac{1}{2}g^{ij}p_{i}p_{j}$ are the geodesics. Given a symplectic manifold (\Gamma,\omega), a hamiltonian $H:\Gamma\to\mathbb{R}$ and a…
In 1999 Berry and Keating showed that a regularization of the 1D classical Hamiltonian H = xp gives semiclassically the smooth counting function of the Riemann zeros. In this paper we first generalize this result by considering a phase…
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We investigate a dynamic model described by the classical Hamiltonian $H(x,p)=(x^2+a^2)(p^2+a^2)$, where $a^2>0$, in classical, semi-classical, and quantum mechanics. In the high-energy $E$ limit, the phase path resembles that of the…
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