Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture

Let ζ\zeta denote the Riemann zeta function, and assume the Riemann hypothesis, so that every non-trivial zero of ζ\zeta has the form 12+iγ\tfrac12 + i\gamma with γR\gamma \in \mathbb{R}; below γ\gamma and γ\gamma' always denote imaginary parts of non-trivial zeros of ζ\zeta (counted with multiplicity).

For fixed real numbers αβ\alpha \le \beta put δ(α,β)=1\delta(\alpha,\beta) = 1 if 0[α,β]0 \in [\alpha,\beta] and δ(α,β)=0\delta(\alpha,\beta) = 0 otherwise. Then

limT#{(γ,γ):0<γ,γT and 2παlogTγγ2πβlogT}T2πlogT=αβ(1(sin(πu)πu)2)du+δ(α,β),\lim_{T\to\infty} \frac{\#\left\{(\gamma,\gamma') : 0 < \gamma, \gamma' \le T \text{ and } \dfrac{2\pi\alpha}{\log T} \le \gamma - \gamma' \le \dfrac{2\pi\beta}{\log T}\right\}}{\dfrac{T}{2\pi}\log T} = \int_{\alpha}^{\beta}\left(1 - \left(\frac{\sin(\pi u)}{\pi u}\right)^{2}\right)\mathrm{d}u + \delta(\alpha,\beta),

where the integrand is interpreted by continuity at u=0u = 0.

Equivalently, in terms of the Fourier-transform side: for T>2T > 2 and αR\alpha \in \mathbb{R}, with the weight w(u):=44+u2w(u) := \dfrac{4}{4+u^{2}}, set

F(α):=FT(α)=(T2πlogT)10<γ,γTTiα(γγ)w(γγ).F(\alpha) := F_{T}(\alpha) = \left(\frac{T}{2\pi}\log T\right)^{-1} \sum_{0 < \gamma, \gamma' \le T} T^{\,i\alpha(\gamma-\gamma')}\, w(\gamma-\gamma').

Then for every A>1A > 1,

FT(α)=1+o(1),T,F_{T}(\alpha) = 1 + o(1), \qquad T \to \infty,

uniformly for 1αA1 \le |\alpha| \le A.

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