Tomorrow seminar at SP seminar SISSA

[Cond.Matt. & Stat.Mech.Section]

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR



Tuesday, 20 January   -   11:00 a.m.

 


SISSA, Santorio Building,   Room 005 (Ground floor)

 

German SIERRA     ( Universidad Autonoma de Madrid )



"Spacetime, prime numbers and Riemann zeros"
 


Abstract


Polya and Hilbert conjectured long ago that the non trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function are the oscillation frequencies of a physical system, a result that would lead to a proof of the celebrated Riemann hypothesis. In this talk we shall explain how  this idea can be realized by the spectrum of a Dirac fermion in Rindler spacetime subject to a potential constructed from the prime numbers. This result points towards unexpected connections between Number Theory and Theoretical Physics.