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Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, Time Series and Normal Distributions

Number Theory 2019-06-28 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

LL functions based on Dirichlet characters are natural generalizations of the Riemann ζ(s)\zeta(s) function: they both have series representations and satisfy an Euler product representation, i.e. an infinite product taken over prime numbers. In this paper we address the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis relative to the non-trivial complex zeros of the Dirichlet LL functions by studying the possibility to enlarge the original domain of convergence of their Euler product. The feasibility of this analytic continuation is ruled by the asymptotic behavior in NN of the series BN=n=1Ncos(tlogpnargχ(pn))B_N = \sum_{n=1}^N \cos \bigl( t \log p_n - \arg \chi (p_n) \bigr) involving Dirichlet characters χ\chi modulo qq on primes pnp_n. Although deterministic, these series have pronounced stochastic features which make them analogous to random time series. We show that the BNB_N's satisfy various normal law probability distributions. The study of their large asymptotic behavior poses an interesting problem of statistical physics equivalent to the Single Brownian Trajectory Problem, here addressed by defining an appropriate ensemble E\mathcal{E} involving intervals of primes. For non-principal characters, we show that the series BNB_N present a universal diffusive random walk behavior BN=O(N)B_N = O(\sqrt{N}) in view of the Dirichlet theorem on the equidistribution of reduced residue classes modulo qq and the Lemke Oliver-Soundararajan conjecture on the distribution of pairs of residues on consecutive primes. This purely diffusive behavior of BNB_N implies that the domain of convergence of the infinite product representation of the Dirichlet LL-functions for non-principal characters can be extended from (s)>1\Re(s) > 1 down to (s)=12\Re (s) = \frac{1}{2}, without encountering any zeros before reaching this critical line.

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@article{arxiv.1809.06158,
  title  = {Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, Time Series and Normal Distributions},
  author = {André LeClair and Giuseppe Mussardo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06158},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

50 pages, 19 figures. Dedicated to Giorgio Parisi on the occasion of his 70th birthday. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1803.10223

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