Remarks on Weil’s quadratic functional in the theory of prime numbers, I
This Memoir studies Weil’s well-known Explicit Formula in the theory of prime numbers and its associated quadratic functional, which is positive semidefinite if and only if the Riemann Hypothesis is true. We prove that this quadratic functional attains its minimum in the unit ball of the -space of functions with support in a given interval , and prove again Yoshida’s theorem that it is positive definite if is sufficiently small. The Fourier transform of the functional gives rise to a quadratic...