Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture for the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function

Let ρ=β+iγ\rho=\beta+i\gamma and ρ=β+iγ\rho'=\beta'+i\gamma' range over the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function. For fixed λ>0\lambda>0 and TT\to\infty, consider pairs with positive ordinates at most TT and spacing 0<γγ2πλ/logT0<\gamma-\gamma'\leq 2\pi\lambda/\log T. Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture.

ρ,ρ0<γ,γT0<γγ2πλlogT1(0λ(1(sinπuπu)2)du)T2πlogT.\sum_{\substack{\rho,\rho' \\ 0<\gamma,\gamma'\le T \\ 0< \gamma-\gamma' \le \frac{2\pi\lambda}{\log T}}} 1 \sim \left(\int_0^\lambda\left(1-\left(\frac{\sin{\pi u}}{\pi u}\right)^2\right) du \right)\frac{T}{2\pi}\log T.

This is a conditional pair-correlation assertion used to study the distribution, simplicity, and location of zeta zeros. The source presents it as the needed asymptotic input for obtaining that asymptotically all zeros are simple and hence, by the preceding result, for addressing the proportion of zeros on the critical line; its resolution status is not specified here.

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Primary source

Daniel A. Goldston and Ade Irma Suriajaya, “Zeta Zeros on the Critical Line”, arXiv:2511.20059 (2026).

Additional references

13 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2507.06823, arXiv:2503.15449, arXiv:2412.20099, arXiv:2412.15481, arXiv:2101.04418, arXiv:1703.09190, arXiv:1603.02952, arXiv:1402.0169, arXiv:1302.1452, arXiv:1212.5537, arXiv:1203.3275, arXiv:1110.1493.

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