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30 May 2025
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Abstract
In this article, we will give an approximate result for Riemann hypothesis.
Keywords:
Riemann
; zeta-function
; Riemann hypothesis
1. Introduction
Riemann zeta-function is originally defined as
and it also can be expressed as the product form
This formula is called Euler’s product formula, which indicates the relation between and prime numbers. About there is a well-known Riemann hypothesis, states that all the non-trivial zeros of are on the critical line . The researches on the conjecture are no doubt a most time-consuming one in mathematics, refer to see the survey paper [3].
The so-called trivial zeros of are , and nontrivial zeros of are known all in the critical strip .
Denote by and respectively as the numbers of zeros of in the region , , and on the critical line , . Riemann hypothesis is that
For , it is known that
And for , Hardy firstly shown that there are infinity many zeros on the critical line, and then he and Littlewood [5] and Selberg [8] proved that
Levinson [6] proved
and then this result has been improved successively. Conrey [2], Feng [4] proved respectively
In this paper, we will prove that
Theorem 1.
where .
The main arguments in this paper are based the papers [1,6,7], but instead of using Riemann-Siegel formula, it will be applied an auxiliary function defined in Lemma 1, which will play a role of mollifier and ferry, it firstly used in [7] but here with a small modification.
2. Some Lemmas
Lemma 1.
Suppose that , ,, ,define
Let , there is
Let , if , then
And if , or , then
If , then
Proof.
By Stirling’s formula, it has
And
Hence,
Besides, it is familiar that
Hence,
where
Hence, if , then
and similarly
if , or , then
If , then
□
Lemma 2.
Let be or and
Let , λ same as in Lemma 1, let , , define
Then for , , there is
Proof.
We move the integral path from to , the residue at the pole is
Hence,
□
Lemma 3.
Let , λ as before, then
Proof.
For (2.6), by the integration by parts
That is,
and
For (2.7),
□
3. The Proof of Theorem 1
Proof.
Let , then the functional equation of can be written as
By Stirling’s formula, it has
Let , then
and for larger t
Taking logarithm of Equation (3.1), and then derivative, it follows
We note that the right side of (3.5) is a sum of two conjugative complex numbers as , so the zeros of the right side of (3.5) occur if and only if
On the left side of (3.5), clearly, is never zero, and by (3.4), so these zeros are just the zeros of .
Moreover, let , then , and
By (3.6), the zeros of are the ones
on , equivalently,
on . Write , and denote by
The investigation above means
By(3.2), it can be known that
So, the main task to determine is to evaluate .
Take , .
Let D be the rectangle with the vertices , , , . First of all, we might as well assume there are no zeros of on the boundary of D, then by the theory of complex function, the change of around D is equal to times , the number of zeros of in D.
On the right side of D
so, change less than . Moreover, by a known result [9, ], a extension of Jessen’s theorem, we can know that on the lower bound and the upper bound . Hence
Now the work is turned into to evaluate .
Take , and let be the rectangle with vertices , , , , taking the integral , by the Littlewood’s Lemma [9, ], it has
where is the sum of the distances of the zeros of from the left. As in the situation of D and take account on the order of , we can know
In addition, by (3.9), it is easy to know
and it is familiar that
So
The rest is to calculate the first integral of (3.13).
By the concavity of logarithm, it has
At first, we simplify as
Then
And
By Cauchy inequality
The third integral in the right side of (3.16) is much smaller than the first one, which will be actually calculated later, hence
Moreover, let
By (2.5), we can know that on the upper bound and the lower bound of , there is
and
It is assumed that .
Moreover, by Lemma 1,
This means that the function may be viewed as a mollifier. Let
By (2.5),
In the next is mainly to calculate the last integral.
By Lemma 1, it has
where
In the following specify We first calculate , by Lemma 2
where
Clearly
By Lemma 3,
And
For , by Lemma 2
where
Clearly,
By Lemma 3
and
and
For , by Lemma 2
where
Clearly,
By Lemma 3
and
and
For , by Lemma 2
where
Clearly,
By Lemma 3
and
and
Combining all the evaluations above, and recall (3.20), it follows
where
Let , by (3.15),
By (3.13), (3.14), (3.18),(3.19) and (3.21), and recall that , it follows
i.e.
and
Then let T be , and summing. This proves Theorem 1 in the case that there are no zeros of on the boundary of D.
For the rest case, provided modifying the left side of D as the indented one with semicircles around the zeros of , and notice that, by (3.7), on the side , a zero of is also a zero of , and so a zero of , with multiplicity one greater, with a similar argument as [6], (1.2) also can be followed, the detail refer to [6], and Theorem 1 is proved. □
Besides, we know that on the critical line a zero of is also a zero of , and so a zero of , with multiplicity one greater. Hence
where sum is over the distinct zeros of on the left side of D, m is the multiplicity of a zero.
And so,
This means that the zeros of on the critical line are almost all simple.
Finally, we would like to mention that, with Lemma 1, it is possible to give further improvement by to extend the left side of the rectangle to the left half plane, provided to modify the related parameters appropriately.
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