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February 2015 A complete Riemann zeta distribution and the Riemann hypothesis
Takashi Nakamura
Bernoulli 21(1): 604-617 (February 2015). DOI: 10.3150/13-BEJ581

Abstract

Let $\sigma,t\in\mathbb{R}$, $s=\sigma+\mathrm{{i}}t$, $\Gamma(s)$ be the Gamma function, $\zeta(s)$ be the Riemann zeta function and $\xi(s):=s(s-1)\pi^{-s/2}\Gamma(s/2)\zeta(s)$ be the complete Riemann zeta function. We show that $\Xi_{\sigma}(t):=\xi(\sigma-\mathrm{{i}}t)/\xi(\sigma)$ is a characteristic function for any $\sigma\in\mathbb{R}$ by giving the probability density function. Next we prove that the Riemann hypothesis is true if and only if each $\Xi_{\sigma}(t)$ is a pretended-infinitely divisible characteristic function, which is defined in this paper, for each $1/2<\sigma<1$. Moreover, we show that $\Xi_{\sigma}(t)$ is a pretended-infinitely divisible characteristic function when $\sigma=1$. Finally we prove that the characteristic function $\Xi_{\sigma}(t)$ is not infinitely divisible but quasi-infinitely divisible for any $\sigma>1$.

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Takashi Nakamura. "A complete Riemann zeta distribution and the Riemann hypothesis." Bernoulli 21 (1) 604 - 617, February 2015. https://doi.org/10.3150/13-BEJ581

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Published: February 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 17 March 2015

zbMATH: 1328.60048
MathSciNet: MR3322332
Digital Object Identifier: 10.3150/13-BEJ581

Keywords: Characteristic function , Lévy–Khintchine representation , Riemann hypothesis , zeta distribution

Rights: Copyright © 2015 Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability

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