Moments of zeta and correlations of divisor-sums. III. (Q898071)

This paper continues authors' investigations of the momentum \(R_{A, B}^\Psi\) of the Riemann zeta function \(\zeta\). The sets \(A:=\{\alpha_1, \alpha_2, \dots, \alpha_k\}\) and \(B:=\{\beta_1, \beta_2, \dots, \beta_k\}\) are to be understood as small shifts of size \(\ll 1/\log T\). This momentum is defined as: \[ R_{A, B}^\Psi = \int_0^\infty \Psi\left(\frac{t}{T}\right) \prod_{\alpha \in A}\zeta(s+\alpha)\prod_{\beta \in B}\zeta(1-s+\beta)\, dt \] The paper does not contain new, main results \textit{per se}; it is a controlled drift that simplifies some techniques, exhibits some new, intermediate identities and provides the context for a conjecture that evaluates an approximation of the momentum in terms of long Dirichlet polynomials. The first two Parts have been published in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 373, No. 2040, 20140313, 11 p. (2015) and Advances in the theory of numbers, Fields Inst. Commun. 77, 75--85 (2015).