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A100060 Consider the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line, 1/2 + i*t. a(n) tells where the second difference of the imaginary part is positive (denoted by a 1) or negative (denoted by a 0). +0
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1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENT

Differences between zeta function gaps: increases are 1 and decreases are 0.

The ratios of the numbers of 0's to the number of 1's in the first 10^n differences are 0/1, 5/5, 50/50, 493/507, 4998/5002, 49949/50049, ...

REFERENCES

John Derbyshire, Prime Obsession, Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, Plume - a Penguin Group, NY, 2003, pgs. 198-9.

Keith Devlin, The Millennium Problems, The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time, Basic Books, NY, 2002, p. 52.

Karl Sabbagh, The Riemann Hypothesis, The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, 2002, pages 93-4, 101.

Marcus du Sautoy, The Music of the Primes, Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics, Perennial, NY, 2004, pgs. 98-9.

LINKS

A. M. Odlyzko, Tables

EXAMPLE

The first few t values are 14.134725142..., 21.022039639..., 25.010857580...

MATHEMATICA

zz = { (* the list of values in the hyper link *) }; yy = Drop[zz, 1] - Drop[zz, -1]; Join[{1}, Table[ If[ yy[[n + 1]] > yy[[n]], 1, 0], {n, 104}]] (* Or *)

zz = { (* the list of values in the hyper link *) }; yy = Drop[zz, 1] - Drop[zz, -1]; xx = Drop[yy, 1] - Drop[yy, -1]; Join[{1}, Table[ If[ xx[[n]] > 0, 1, 0], {n, 104}]] (from Robert G. Wilson v Jan 14 2005)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A102522, A102523.

Cf. A123504, A123505, A123506, A123507.

Sequence in context: A088517 A040053 A004569 this_sequence A147850 A099991 A091069

Adjacent sequences: A100057 A100058 A100059 this_sequence A100061 A100062 A100063

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Gary W. Adamson (qntmpkt(AT)yahoo.com), Oct 31 2004

EXTENSIONS

Corrected and extended by Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Jan 13 2005

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