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A117537 These are the locations of the midpoints of consecutive zeros of Riemann zeta function on the critical line with increasingly large normalized spacing; equivalently of consecutive real zeros of the Z function. If t and s are consecutive zeros of the Z function, we define their normalized spacing as (s-t)/(2 pi ln((s+t)/(4 pi))). The sequence above is found by taking r = ln(2)(s+t)/(4 pi) and rounding to the nearest integer. These values r have a marked tendency to be close to integer values and all of the terms of the above sequence are actually contained in the intervals [s, t]*ln(2)/(2 pi). +0
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2, 3, 5, 7, 12, 19, 31, 46, 53, 72, 270, 311, 954, 1178, 1308, 1395, 1578, 3395, 4190 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,1

COMMENT

So far as the first 100000 zeros take us, the integers of the above sequence actually fall inside of the normalized intervals of zeros of Z; that is, they fall between two zeros of Z(2 pi t/ln(2)). It would be a worthwhile project to push this computation far enough to find a counterexample. The integers above, while slightly less clearly linked to music than A117536 and A117538 are nevertheless very clearly closely related to equal divisions of the octave. Large gaps between consecutive zeros, in other words, seem to correspond to good scale divisions, though less exactly than peak values or high integrals do.

REFERENCES

Edwards, H. M., Riemann's Zeta-Function, Academic Press, 1974

A. Ivic (1985). The Riemann Zeta Function, John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-80634-X.

Titchmarsh, E. C., The Theory of the Riemann Zeta-Function, second revised (Heath-Brown) edition, Oxford University Press, 1986

LINKS

A. M. Odlyzko, On the distribution of spacings between zeros of the zeta function, Math. Comp., 48 (1987), 273-308.

A. M. Odlyzko, The first 100,000 zeros of the Riemann zeta function, accurate to within 3*10^(-9)

Wikipedia, Z Function

CROSSREFS

Cf. A117536, A117538, A117539.

Sequence in context: A143642 A060986 A054540 this_sequence A137713 A018065 A048818

Adjacent sequences: A117534 A117535 A117536 this_sequence A117538 A117539 A117540

KEYWORD

hard,nonn

AUTHOR

Gene Ward Smith (genewardsmith(AT)gmail.com), Mar 27 2006

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