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Matti Pitkanen

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A Strategy for Proving Riemann Hypothesis

A strategy for proving Riemann hypothesis is suggested. The vanishing of the Rieman Zeta reduces to an orthogonality condition for the eigenfunctions of a non-Hermitian operator $D^+$ having the zeros of Riemann Zeta as its eigenvalues. The construction of $D^+$ is inspired by the conviction that Riemann Zeta is associated with a physical system allowing conformal transformations as its symmetries. The eigenfunctions of $D^+$ are analogous to the so called coherent states and in general not orthogonal to each other. The states orthogonal to a vacuum state (which has a negative norm squared) correspond to the zeros of the Riemann Zeta. The induced metric in the space ${\cal{V}}$ of states which correspond to the zeros of the Riemann Zeta at the critical line $Re[s]=1/2$ is hermitian and both hermiticity and positive definiteness properties imply Riemann hypothesis. Conformal invariance in the sense of gauge invariance allows only the states belonging to ${\cal{V}}$. Riemann hypothesis follows also from a restricted form of a dynamical conformal invariance in ${\cal{V}}$ and one can reduce the proof to a standard analytic argument used in Lie group theory.

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A further step in the proof of Riemann hypothesis

Paper has been withdrawn due to an error in the basic argument that the states corresponding to the zeros of Riemann Zeta with Re[s]<1/2 allow a Fourier expansion in the basis provided by the states having Re[s]>= 1/2.

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Riemann hypothesis and super-conformal invariance

A strategy for proving (not a proof of, as was the first over-optimistic belief) the Riemann hypothesis is suggested. The vanishing of Riemann Zeta reduces to an orthogonality condition for the eigenfunctions of a non-Hermitian operator D^+ having the zeros of Riemann Zeta as its eigenvalues. The construction of D^+ is inspired by the conviction that Riemann Zeta is associated with a physical system allowing superconformal transformations as its symmetries and second quantization in terms of the representations of superconformal algebra. The eigenfunctions of D^+ are analogous to the so called coherent states and in general not orthogonal to each other. The states orthogonal to a vacuum state (having a negative norm squared) correspond to the zeros of Riemann Zeta. The physical states having a positive norm squared correspond to the zeros of Riemann Zeta at the critical line. Riemann hypothesis follows by reductio ad absurdum from the hypothesis that ordinary superconformal algebra acts as gauge symmetries for all coherent states orthogonal to the vacuum state, including also the non-physical coherent states that might exist off from the critical line.

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