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Hilbert–Pólya conjecture

Establish the existence of a self-adjoint operator H such that the eigenvalues of 1/2 + iH coincide with the imaginary parts of the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function, thereby implying the Riemann hypothesis.

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Background

The work situates its numerical experiments within the broader context of spectral approaches to the Riemann Hypothesis, notably the Hilbert–Pólya conjecture, which posits a deep operator-theoretic underpinning of the nontrivial zeros.

Demonstrating or constructing such a self-adjoint operator would provide a pathway to proving the Riemann Hypothesis by linking the zeros to a quantum-mechanical spectrum.

References

According to the Hilbert - Pólya conjecture; if H is a self-adjoint operator and the eigenvalues of 1/2 + iH correspond to the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function, then the Riemann hypothesis follows.

Successive generation of nontrivial Riemann zeros from a Wu-Sprung type potential (2510.16759 - Jaksch, 19 Oct 2025) in Introduction