The UV prolate spectrum matches the zeros of zeta.

Connes, Alain; Moscovici, Henri · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

SignificanceWe show that the eigenvalues of the self-adjoint extension (introduced by A.C. in 1998) of the prolate spheroidal operator reproduce the UV behavior of the squares of zeros of the Riemann zeta function, and we construct an isospectral family of Dirac operators whose spectra have the same UV behavior as those zeros.