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Growth of residues of $1/\zeta(s)$: conjectures?
Let $\rho$ range over the non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function. Let
$$M(T) = \max_{|\Im \rho|\leq T} \left|\mathrm{Res}_{s=\rho} \frac{1}{\zeta(s)}\right| =
\max_{|\Im \rho|\leq T} \frac{1}...
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Computing Mertens' function in time O(sqrt(x)) - in practice
As far as I know, there is one way currently known to -- in principle -- compute the Mertens function $M(x) = \sum_{n\leq x} \mu(n)$ in time essentially $O\left(x^{1/2}\right)$, namely, a modification ...
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Bounding $1/\zeta(s)$ given RH
Let $T\geq 0$. Assume RH(T+100), that is, assume that all non-trivial zeros $\rho$ of the Riemann zeta function with $|\Im(\rho)|\leq T+100$ satisfy $\Re(\rho)=1/2$. Can we then give a good upper ...
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Implications of divergence of $1/\zeta(s) $ at 1/2
$1/\zeta(s)=\sum_{n>0}\frac{\mu(n)}{n^s}$ where $\mu$ is the Moebius function.
This series is known to converge for $s\ge 1$ and diverge for $s\le 1/2$.
Its convergence is unknown if $1/2< s&...
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From holes in the image of peculiar functions to new perspective on the Riemann Hypothesis
I am working with the Dirichlet eta function $\eta(z)$, with $z=\sigma+it$, $\sigma > \frac{1}{2}$, and $t>0$. Let us define
$$\eta_n(z,\gamma)= \sum_{k=1}^n (-1)^{k+1}\lambda_k^{-\sigma} e^{-it\...
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Functional equation or analytic continuation of certain approximations to $\zeta^z(s)$?
Let $z$ be a complex number and $\omega(n)$ denote the number of distinct prime factors of the natural number $n$. I am considering the arithmetic functions $|\mu(n)|z^{\omega(n)}$ and their ...
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Does $\frac{1}{\pi}\operatorname{Arg} \zeta(1/2+2\pi i t)$ have mean value $0$?
I'm curious about what is known about the distribution of the function $\frac{1}{\pi}\operatorname{Arg} \zeta(1/2+2\pi i t) \in (-1,1]$, on a linear or logarithmic scale, where $\operatorname{Arg}$ ...
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Fully explicit version of Atkinson's formula?
Let $$I(T)=\int_0^T \left|\zeta\left(\frac{1}{2} + i t\right)\right|^2 dt$$
and let $E(T)$ be $I(T)$ minus what turn out to be its main terms:
$$E(T) = I(T)- T \log \frac{T}{2 \pi} - (2 \gamma - 1) T.$...
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When does the function $F(x)=\frac{\operatorname{li}(x^{1/2})}{\operatorname{li}(x)-\pi(x)}$ reach $F(x) > 8$?
We know from Ramanujan and Riemann that,
$$\pi(x) = \operatorname{li}(x) -\tfrac12\operatorname{li}(x^{1/2})-\tfrac13\operatorname{li}(x^{1/3})-\tfrac15\operatorname{li}(x^{1/5}) +\dots$$
with prime ...
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Empirical bounds on $\left|\frac{\zeta'(1+it)}{\zeta(1+it)}\right|$
It is reasonable to expect that $$\left|\frac{\zeta'(1+it)}{\zeta(1+it)}\right| < 2 \log \log t$$
for all $t\geq 4$ (say): a somewhat stronger bound is known for $t\geq 10^{165}$ or so (Theorem 5 ...
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Approximating $\zeta'/\zeta$ (and its derivatives) by a finite sum
Let $A(s) = (-\zeta'/\zeta)^{(r)}(s) = \sum_n a_n n^{-s}$, where $r\geq 0$. (We can consider $r=0$ first for simplicity.) Say I want to approximate $A(s)$ for $s=1+it$ by a finite sum - preferably a ...
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Best explicit bound on $\zeta'(1+it)/\zeta(1+it)$
Assume the Riemann hypothesis. We know that
$$\left|\frac{\zeta'(1+it)}{\zeta(1+it)}\right| \leq 2 \log \log t + O(1)$$
(see, e.g., Thm. 13.13 in Montgomery-Vaughan). What is the best explicit bound ...
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Conditional results on average size of Mertens' function
Let $M(x) = \sum_{n \le x} \mu(n)$ where $\mu$ is the Möbius function. Titchmarsh, in his book on the Riemann zeta function, considers consequences of the hypothesis that
$$\int_{1}^{X} \left( \frac{M(...
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Generalized prime number theorem and Riemann Hypothesis for non-number math objects
My question is about some math objects (matrices, polynomials) and operators that satisfy a number of properties which can lead to a theory similar to PNT, RH, Dirichlet functions, abscissa of ...
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Is there a conjectured uniform Lindelof hypothesis for Hurwitz zeta functions
Consider $\zeta(s, a) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} (n+a)^{-s}$ (alternatively, consider its functional equation Dirichlet series $\sum_{n=1}e(a n) n^{-s}$). What is the expected growth-rate of $\zeta(1/2 + ...
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Lindelöf Hypothesis and the Karatsuba conjectures
I'm aware of Shao-Ji Feng's result that Karatsuba's weaker conjecture ("conjecture 1") is true conditionally on the Lindelöf Hypothesis.
Shao-Ji Feng, "On Karatsuba conjecture and the Lindelöf ...
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Approximating $\zeta^{(r)}(s)$ by a sum
Let $\eta:[0,\infty)\to [0,\infty)$ be compactly supported, continuous and piecewise $C^1$, with its derivative $\eta'$ being of bounded variation. It is completely unsurprising that one can prove (...
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What is the winding behavior of the Riemann zeta function around zero along the line $s=1+it$?
Let $\phi: \mathbb R \setminus \{0\} \to S^1 \subset \mathbb C$ be defined by
$$\phi(t)= \zeta(1+it)/|\zeta(1+it)|$$
(the nonvavishing of the denominator being a bit weaker than the prime number ...
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The Basel problem revisited?
In the Basel problem, the $sinc$ function is considered at the Wikipedia page.
Let me try to make an alternative function definition:
$$f(x) = \prod_{n=1}^\infty \left ( 1+ \frac{x^3}{n^3} \right ) = \...
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Can the inverse of the Riemann zeta function in $s > 1$ be expressed as a series?
In this post, we are interested in the Rimenann zeta function $\zeta(s)$ in $s > 1$ only where it is strictly decreasing rather than $s$ in the entire complex plane. We have the Stieltjes series ...
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On the asymptotics of some sum involving the Mertens function
Let $a_n$ be a sequence of nonnegative real numbers such that $\sum_{n\leq x} a_n \gg \frac{\sqrt x}{\log x}$ for large enough $x$. Denote by $\mu$ the Mobius function, and let $M(N)=\sum_{n\leq N} \...
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Compensation by the residue of the zeta function
(Repost of a question from MSE, where it found no success)
Let $F$ be a global number field. Introduce a local quantity at every place
$$x_p = \frac{\zeta_p(1)}{\zeta_p(2)}$$
for instance. The ...
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An explicit formula for $\zeta(2m+1)$ with good convergence
The question: Is the following formula known?
$$\zeta(2m+1)=\frac{(-1)^m 2^{4m+2}\pi^{2m}}{2^{2m}-1} \sum\limits_{k=1}^m \frac{(2^{2k}-1)b_{2k}}{2^{2k}(2k)!}\cdot \sum\limits_{v=k}^m \frac{(2^{2v-2k+...
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Moments of completed L-functions?
This is a follow up question to this one.
It seems that results on moments of L-functions, that is, estimates for integrals of the form
$$\int^{T}_1|\zeta(\sigma+it)|^{2k}dt$$
are typically for the ...
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Zeta function double product
Is it possible to write the following double product in terms of the zeta function?
\begin{align}
&\prod_{i=1}^{\infty}\prod_{j=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{1-(p_i\ p_j)^{-s}}
\end{align}
Extending the ...
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Explicit bounds on gaps between zeros of $\zeta^\prime(s)$
In $\S$9.1 of "Theory of the Riemann Zeta Function", Titchmarsh uses Borel-Carathéodory and Hadamard Three Circles to show that every circle of radius 6 and center $3+iT$ contains a zeros of ...
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Order of growth of $\left|\frac{1}{\zeta’(\rho)}\right|$ as $\Im(\rho)\rightarrow\infty$?
Let $\zeta$ denote the Riemann zeta function, and let $\rho\in\mathbb{C}$ be a variable that takes its values among the zeros of the zeta function, so that $\zeta(\rho)=0$, and write $\rho=\sigma+it$. ...
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Question about a paper by Franca and LeClair in analytic number theory
I am reading an article "Transcendental equations satisfied by the individual
zeros of Riemann $\zeta$, Dirichlet and modular
L-functions" by G. Franca and A. LeClair (2015) see here. The ...
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Is there a relation or formula between the correlations of the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function and the correlations between high points
Consider an interval of length $(\log T)^{\theta}$ for some fixed $\theta > −1$, around a point $1/2 + i y$ on the critical line where $y\in[T,2T]$ and $T$ is large. How do the correlations between ...
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Can $ x \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{k} \Big{(}- \gamma - \psi \big{(}1-\frac{x}{k} \big{)} \Big{)} $ be simplified?
I'm interested in sums of the form $$f_{p} (x) = \sum_{k=2}^{\infty} \zeta(k)^{p} x^{k} .$$
For $p=1$, the following result is known: $$f_{1} (x) = -x \big{(}\psi(1-x) + \gamma \big{)} .$$
(That is, ...
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What is the closed form of this integral?
Consider the Chebyshev first function $\psi(y):=\sum_{p^j \leq y} \log p$, where $p$ is a prime. Define $$F(s, k) = s\int_{1}^{\infty} \psi(x + x^k)x^{-s-1} \mathrm{d}x$$ for $ \Re(s) >$ max $(1, ...
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Guessing of $n$th prime from "super- regularized" product of primes
( I've been thinking about asking this for a long time . Though this is not rigorous; It can be thought of as heuristic or extraction of information from different viewpoint.)
We know "super-...
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A sharper estimate for a generalization of the sum-of-divisors function
I am interested in the function $f_n(m)$ which can be defined by the Dirichlet generating function $$\zeta(s)\zeta(s - 1) \cdots\zeta(s - n + 1) = \sum\limits_{m = 1}^\infty \frac{f_n(m)}{m^s} $$
This ...
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Is there a general relationship between definite integrals over functions involving the complete elliptic integral of the first kind and zeta values?
Background
Let $\textbf{K}(k)$ be the complete elliptic integral of the first kind, where $k$ is its elliptic modulus [1]. Moreover, define $k' := \sqrt{1-k^{2}} $ as its complementary modulus. I've ...
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Regularised value of cardinality of non trivial Zeta zeros:
This is a straight forward question so apologies in advance
Consider the following sums:
$$\sum_k1_{\rho_k}$$
$$\sum_k{\rho_k}$$
(i.e. first sum counts non trivial zeros of Zeta function)
I want ...
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$\zeta(s) = \sum_{n\leq x} n^{-s} - x^{1-s}/(1-s) + ...$ through bounded-order Euler-Maclaurin?
It is a basic classical result (Titchmarsh Thm 4.11; credited to Hardy-Littlewood) that,
uniformly for $\Re s \geq \sigma_0>0$, $t\leq 6 x$ (say),
$$\zeta(s) = \sum_{n\leq x} \frac{1}{n^s} - \frac{...
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Intuition for the bias of the partial sums of the Liouville function
It's a well known result that the Dirichlet series of the Liouville function $ \lambda(n) $ is given by
$$ \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{\lambda(k)}{k^s} = \frac{\zeta(2s)}{\zeta(s)} $$
If we use Perron's ...
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Laplace transform of power of zeta function
Let $s$ is the complex variable. I would like to figure out the region of absolutely convergency of the following integral
$$
e^{\frac{is}{2}}\int\limits_{\frac{1}{2}-i\infty}^{\frac{1}{2}+i\infty}\...
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Lower bound of the modulus $|\eta(s)|$ of the Dirichlet Eta function if $0.6 < \Re(s) < 0.9$
Let $s=\sigma + it$, with $0.6 < \sigma < 1$ and $\sigma=\Re(s)$. I am trying to get good enough approximations for $\eta(s)$, hoping something useful might come out of it. I stumbled upon a ...
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What is known about products of zeta values?
A couple of years ago, I asked this MSE question on the evaluation of the product of even zeta values: $$ \prod_{n=1}^\infty \zeta(2n) \approx 1.82 \quad .$$ While it can be shown that the product ...
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About generalized binomial theorem and Grünwald-Letnikov fractional derivative
I have run into a problem while computing the fractional derivatives of order $\alpha$ for the Riemann zeta function. My Theorem states
Let $s\in\mathbb{C}$, $\mathfrak{Re}(s)>1$, then the ...
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Riemann hypothesis and ternary Goldbach
Is there any result of the following shape: There exists an absolute constant $\delta>0$ such that the Riemann hypothesis for some $L$-functions is equivalent to the following estimate for all ...
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Estimating integral of product of terms $\cos(t\log p)$
I would like to prove the following proposition from A. Harper's paper "Sharp conditional upper bound for moments of the Riemann Zeta Function"
Proposition.
Let $T$ be large and let $n=p_1^{\...
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Supremum of certain modified zeta functions at 1
Let $D$ be an integer number and let $\chi$ be the Dirichlet character defined by
$$\chi(m) = 0 \text{ if $m$ even, } \chi(m) = (D/m) \text{ if $m$ odd,}$$
where $(D/m)$ denotes the Jacobi symbol. ...
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Relation between the sign of the Stieltjes constants and some zero-free region of $\zeta$
One may recall that the Stieltjes constants $\gamma_{k}$ appear as the scaled coefficients in the regular part of the Laurent series expansion of the Riemann zeta function about $s = 1$:
$$
\begin{...
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The simple zero conjecture for the Riemann zeta function
The simple zero conjecture says that all zeros of the Riemann zeta function are simple.
Suppose the conjecture is not true. Namely there is an $s$ in the complex plane such that $\zeta(s)=0$ and the ...
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Solving a system of differential-like equations for reverse Euler-Maclaurin summation
Aim
A particular instance of a rational zeries that has as of yet not been evaluated is:
\begin{align}
Z:= \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{\zeta(2n)}{(2n)!}. \label{EM1} \tag{EM1}
\end{align}
This sum ...
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Elementary functions such that $\sum_{n=2}^{\infty} f(n) \left( \zeta(n)-1 \right)$ can be evaluated, but $\sum_{n=2}^{\infty} f(n)$ can't
Background
The general context for this question is the topic of rational zeta series. What I've found so far, is that it usually the case that sums of the form $$\zeta_{f} := \sum_{n=2}^{\infty} f(n) ...
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The logarithmic derivative of a twisted L-function?
Let $F$ be a quadratic number field with class number $h_F = 1$. Let $\zeta_F$ be the Dedekind zeta function, we have
$$ \frac{\zeta_F ' (1+it)}{\zeta_F (1+it)} \ll \frac{\log t}{\log\log t} .$$
(I ...
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Possible regularisation for sum of function of primes
Consider the following sum of function of primes:
$$-\sum_{p}\ln\left( 1 - \frac{1}{(ep)^{1/2}} \right){\ln(p)}$$
Here $p$ runs through all primes and $e$ is Euler's constant.
We can see that the sum ...
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