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In mathematics, the Hilbert–Pólya conjecture is a possible approach to the Riemann hypothesis, by means of spectral theory.

History

In a letter to Andrew Odlyzko, dated January 3, 1982, George Pólya said that while he was in Göttingen around 1912 to 1914 he was asked by Edmund Landau for a physical reason that the Riemann hypothesis should be true, and suggested that this would be the case if the imaginary parts t of the zeros

${\tfrac {1}{2}}+it$

of the Riemann zeta function corresponded to eigenvalues of an unbounded self adjoint operator. The earliest published statement of the conjecture seems to be in Template:Harvtxt.

1950s and the Selberg trace formula

At the time of Pólya's conversation with Landau, there was little basis for such speculation. However Selberg in the early 1950s proved a duality between the length spectrum of a Riemann surface and the eigenvalues of its Laplacian. This so-called Selberg trace formula bore a striking resemblance to the explicit formulae, which gave credibility to the speculation of Hilbert and Pólya.

1970s and random matrices

Hugh Montgomery investigated and found that the statistical distribution of the zeros on the critical line has a certain property, now called Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture. The zeros tend not to cluster too closely together, but to repel. Visiting at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1972, he showed this result to Freeman Dyson, one of the founders of the theory of random matrices.

Dyson saw that the statistical distribution found by Montgomery appeared to be the same as the pair correlation distribution for the eigenvalues of a random Hermitian matrix. These distributions are of importance in physics — the eigenstates of a Hamiltonian, for example the energy levels of an atomic nucleus, satisfy such statistics. Subsequent work has strongly borne out the connection between the distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function and the eigenvalues of a random Hermitian matrix drawn from the Gaussian unitary ensemble, and both are now believed to obey the same statistics. Thus the conjecture of Pólya and Hilbert now has a more solid basis, though it has not yet led to a proof of the Riemann hypothesis.

Recent times

In a development that has given substantive force to this approach to the Riemann hypothesis through functional analysis, Alain Connes has formulated a trace formula that is actually equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis. This has therefore strengthened the analogy with the Selberg trace formula to the point where it gives precise statements. He gives a geometric interpretation of the explicit formula of number theory as a trace formula on noncommutative geometry of Adele classes.

Possible connection with quantum mechanics

A possible connection of Hilbert–Pólya operator with quantum mechanics was given by Pólya. The Hilbert–Pólya conjecture operator is of the form $\scriptstyle 1/2+iH$ where $\scriptstyle H$ is the Hamiltonian of a particle of mass $m$ that is moving under the influence of a potential $\scriptstyle V(x)$. The Riemann conjecture is equivalent to the assertion that the Hamiltonian is Hermitian, or equivalently that $\scriptstyle V$ is real.

Using perturbation theory to first order, the energy of the nth eigenstate is related to the expectation value of the potential:

$E_{n}=E_{n}^{0}+\langle \varphi _{n}^{0}\vert V\vert \varphi _{n}^{0}\rangle$

where $\scriptstyle E_{n}^{0}$ and $\scriptstyle \varphi _{n}^{0}$ are the eigenvalues and eigenstates of the free particle Hamiltonian. This equation can be taken to be a Fredholm integral equation of first kind, with the energies $\scriptstyle E_{n}$. Such integral equations may be solved by means of the resolvent kernel, so that the potential may be written as

$V(x)=A\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }(g(k)+{\overline {g(k)}}-E_{k}^{0})\,R(x,k)\,dk$

where $\scriptstyle R(x,k)$ is the resolvent kernel, $\scriptstyle A$ is a real constant and

$g(k)=i\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\left({\frac {1}{2}}-\rho _{n}\right)\delta (k-n)$

where $\scriptstyle \delta (k-n)$ is the Dirac delta function, and the $\scriptstyle \rho _{n}$ are the "non-trivial" roots of the zeta function $\scriptstyle \zeta (\rho _{n})=0$.

Michael Berry and Jon Keating have speculated that the Hamiltonian H is actually some quantization of the classical Hamiltonian xp, where p is the canonical momentum associated with x The simplest Hermitian operator corresponding to xp is

$H={\tfrac {1}{2}}(xp+px)=-i\left(x{\frac {\mathrm {d} }{\mathrm {d} x}}+{\frac {1}{2}}\right).$

This refinement of the Hilbert–Pólya conjecture is known as the Berry conjecture (or the Berry–Keating conjecture). As of 2008, it is still quite inconcrete, as it is not clear on which space this operator should act in order to get the correct dynamics, nor how to regularize it in order to get the expected logarithmic corrections. Berry and Keating have conjectured that since this operator is invariant under dilations perhaps the boundary condition f(nx) = f(x) for integer 'n' may help to get the correct asymptotic results valid for big 'n'

${\frac {1}{2}}+i{\frac {2\pi n}{\log n}}.$

References

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