Newman's conjecture for the De Bruijn–Newman constant

Let Ξt(x)\Xi_t(x) be the deformed Riemann zeta function, and let ΛR\Lambda\in\mathbb R be the De Bruijn–Newman constant, characterized by the fact that Ξt\Xi_t has only real zeros for tΛt\geq\Lambda and has a non-real zero for t<Λt<\Lambda. Newman's conjecture. One has

Λ0.\Lambda\geq 0.

The Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to Λ0\Lambda\leq 0, so the conjecture asserts that the Riemann hypothesis, if true, is only barely true. The source does not state a resolution of this conjecture.

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Primary source

Alan Chang, David Mehrle, Steven J. Miller, Tomer Reiter, Joseph Stahl and Dylan Yott, “Newman's conjecture, zeros of the L-functions, function fields”, arXiv:1411.2071 (2014).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2014). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1310.3477.

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