Conjecture on the limiting distribution of the centred sums over zeta-zero cycles

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Let SS denote the multiset of ordinates of the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function. For a>0a>0, h∈Rh\in\mathbb{R}, and n≥0n\geq 0, define

ηa,h(n)=1alog⁡na+∑t+h∈S⌊at2π⌋=n(eiat−1).\eta_{a,h}(n)=\frac{1}{a}\log\frac{n}{a}+\sum_{\substack{t+h\in S\\\\ \left\lfloor\frac{at}{2\pi}\right\rfloor=n}}(e^{iat}-1).

Limiting-distribution conjecture. For every a>0a>0 there is a Borel function fa:C→Rf_a:\mathbb{C}\to\mathbb{R} satisfying

∫Cfa=1\int_{\mathbb{C}}f_a=1

such that for every h∈Rh\in\mathbb{R} and every Borel set X⊆CX\subseteq\mathbb{C},

\lim_{M\to\infty}\frac{\\#\\{0\leq n<M:\eta_{a,h}(n)+\frac{\Lambda(e^a)}{a}e^{-(\frac12+ih)a}\in X\\}}{M}=\int_Xf_a.

The preceding transformation of Landau's formula identifies the added term as the negative of the mean of ηa,h(n)\eta_{a,h}(n). Numerical investigations suggest that the resulting limiting distribution is independent of hh and of the cycle index nn, but the existence of the limiting Borel density remains conjectural.

References

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A. M. Edgington, “Statistical regularities in the zeta zeros”, arXiv:math/0612550 (2006).

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