Riemann hypothesis and Quantum Mechanics
Abstract
In their 1995 paper, Jean-Beno\^{i}t Bost and Alain Connes (BC) constructed a quantum dynamical system whose partition function is the Riemann zeta function , where is an inverse temperature. We formulate Riemann hypothesis (RH) as a property of the low temperature Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) states of this theory. More precisely, the expectation value of the BC phase operator can be written as where is the primorial number of order and a generalized Dedekind function depending on one real parameter as Fix a large inverse temperature The Riemann hypothesis is then shown to be equivalent to the inequality for large enough. Under RH, extra formulas for high temperatures KMS states () are derived.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1012.4665,
title = {Riemann hypothesis and Quantum Mechanics},
author = {Michel Planat and Patrick Solé and Sami Omar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.4665},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
version to appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor