Victor Castillo-Garate

arXiv2012

The multiplicative anomaly of three or more commuting elliptic operators

Zeta-regularized determinants are well-known to fail to be multiplicative. Hence one is lead to study the n-fold multiplicative anomaly M_n(A_1,...,A_n) :=\frac{\det_ζ\Big(\prod_{i=1}^n A_i\Big)}{\prod_{i=1}^n \det_ζ(A_i)} attached to n (suitable) operators A_1,...,A_n. We show that if the A_i are commuting pseudo-differential elliptic operators, then their joint multiplicative anomaly can be expressed in terms of the pairwise multiplicative anomalies. Namely M_n(A_1,...,A_n)^{m_1+...+m_n} =\prod_{1\le i<j\le n}M_2(A_i,A_j)^{m_i+m_j}, where m_j is the order of A_j. The proof relies on Wodzicki's 1987 formula for the pairwise multiplicative anomaly M_2(A,B) of two commuting elliptic operators.

math.FA↗

arXiv2012

Self-intersections of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line

We show that the Riemann zeta function ζ has only countably many self-intersections on the critical line, i.e., for all but countably many z in C the equation ζ(1/2+it)=z has at most one solution t in R. More generally, we prove that if F is analytic in a complex neighborhood of R and locally injective on R, then either the set {(a,b) in R^2:a \ne b and F(a)=F(b)} is countable, or the image F(R) is a loop in C.

math.NT↗