Zeta phenomenology

Publication date 24 August 2012

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3463

zeros of zeta functions characteristic \(p\) zeta functions integral zeta values symmetries of zeta functions

Drinfel'd modules; higher-dimensional motives, etc. (11G09) Zeta and (L)-functions in characteristic (p) (11M38)

Abstract: It is well known that Euler experimentally discovered the functional equation of the Riemann zeta function. Indeed he detected the fundamental

s m a p s t o 1 - s

invariance of

z e t a (s)

by looking only at special values. In particular, via this functional equation, the permutation group on two letters,

, is realized as a group of symmetries of

z e t a (s)

. In this paper, we use the theory of special-values of our characteristic

p

zeta functions to experimentally detect a natural symmetry group

S_{(q)}

for these functions of cardinality

m a t h f r a k c = 2^{a l e p h_{0}}

(where

m a t h f r a k c

is the cardinality of the continuum);

S_{(q)}

is a realization of the permutation group on

0, 1, 2...

as homeomorphisms of

stabilizing both the nonpositive and nonnegative integers. We present a number of distinct instances in which

S_{(q)}

acts (or appears to act) as symmetries of our functions. In particular, we present a natural, but highly mysterious, action of

S_{(q)}

on a large subset of the domain of our functions that appears to stabilize zeta-zeroes. As of this writing, we do not yet know an overarching formalism that unifies these examples; however, it would seem that this formalism will involve an interplay between the 1-unit group

U_{1}

-- playing the role of a "gauge group" -- and

S_{(q)}

. Furthermore, we show that

S_{(q)}

may be naturally realized as an automorphism group of the convolution algebras of characteristic

p

valued measures.

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