ICM98-CL11 (97/04/07): Riemann conjecture solved?
TO ALL MATHEMATICIANS WHO HAVE PRELIMINARILY PREREGISTERED FOR
THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS 1998 IN BERLIN
Eleventh Circular Letter, April 7, 1997 (Special Announcement)
Subject: ICM98-CL11: Riemann conjecture solved?
Dear colleague:
I have received variants of the e-mail below from several sources
and was asked to distribute the news over the ICM98 e-mail server.
If the message and the result are correct, a really important
mathematical problem is solved. Thus, I believe that the announcement
deserves wide distribution.
The message, I was told, is an e-mail from Enrico Bombieri to Doron
Zeilberger explaining the solution of the Riemann conjecture by
Alain Connes and an unnamed young physicist.
Sincerely
Martin Groetschel
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>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:50:44 +0100
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>Voici le texte d'un message de la part d'Enrico Bombieri,
>adresse' a Doron Zeilberger, D.F.
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>Dear Doron,
>
> There are fantastic developments to Alain Connes's lecture
>at IAS last Wednesday. Connes gave an account of how to obtain
>a trace formula involving zeroes of L-functions only on
>the critical line, and the hope was that one could obtain also
>Weil's explicit formula in the same context; this would solve
>the Riemann hypothesis for all L-functions at one stroke. Thus there
>cannot be even a single zeroe(1) off the critical line!
>
> Well, a young physicist at the lecture saw in a flash that
>one could set the whole thing in a combinatorial setting
>using supersymmetric fermionic-bosonic systems (the physics
>corresponds to a near absolute zero ensemble of a mixture
>of anyons and morons with opposite spins) and, using the
>C-based meta-language MISPAR, after six days of uninterrupted
>work, computed the logdet of the resolvent Laplacian,
>removed the infinities using renormalization, and, lo
>and behold, he got the required positivity of Weil's explicit
>formula! Wow!
>
> Regards also from Paula Cohen.
> Please give this the highest diffusion. Best,
>
> Enrico
>
>
>(1) This is the correct spelling, according to vicepresident
>Dan Quayle.
>
>
>
Institut de Recherche Mathematique Avancee
(URA 001 DU CNRS)
Universite Louis Pasteur
7 rue Descartes
67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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