{"paper":{"title":"Towards Quantized Number Theory: Spectral Operators and an Asymmetric Criterion for the Riemann Hypothesis","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math.MP"],"primary_cat":"math-ph","authors_text":"Michel L. Lapidus","submitted_at":"2015-01-22T01:17:10Z","abstract_excerpt":"This research expository article contains a survey of earlier work (in \\S2--\\S4) but also contains a main new result (in \\S5), which we first describe. Given $c \\geq 0$, the spectral operator $\\mathfrak{a} = \\mathfrak{a}_c$ can be thought of intuitively as the operator which sends the geometry onto the spectrum of a fractal string of dimension not exceeding $c$. Rigorously, it turns out to coincide with a suitable quantization of the Riemann zeta function $\\zeta = \\zeta(s)$: $\\mathfrak{a} = \\zeta (\\partial)$, where $\\partial = \\partial_c$ is the infinitesimal shift of the real line acting on t"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1501.05362","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}