{ "id": "math/0202141", "version": "v2", "published": "2002-02-15T10:16:36.000Z", "updated": "2002-02-18T06:13:50.000Z", "title": "A strengthening of the Nyman-Beurling criterion for the Riemann Hypothesis", "authors": [ "Luis Baez-Duarte" ], "comment": "7 pages, 3 typos corrected, one reference added", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "Let $\\rho(x)=x-[x]$, $\\chi=\\chi_{(0,1)}$. In $L_2(0,\\infty)$ consider the subspace $\\B$ generated by $\\{\\rho_a | a \\geq 1\\}$ where $\\rho_a(x):=\\rho(\\frac{1}{ax})$. By the Nyman-Beurling criterion the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the statement $\\chi\\in\\bar{\\B}$. For some time it has been conjectured, and proved in this paper, that the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the stronger statement that $\\chi\\in\\bar{\\Bnat}$ where $\\Bnat$ is the much smaller subspace generated by $\\{\\rho_a | a\\in\\Nat\\}$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2002-02-18T06:13:50.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "riemann hypothesis", "nyman-beurling criterion", "equivalent", "strengthening" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 7, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2002math......2141B" } } }