Fractal Complex Dimensions, Riemann Hypothesis and Invertibility of the Spectral Operator

A spectral reformulation of the Riemann hypothesis was obtained in [LaMa2] by the second author and H. Maier in terms of an inverse spectral problem for fractal strings. This problem is related to the question "Can one hear the shape of a fractal drum?" and was shown in [LaMa2] to have a positive answer for fractal strings whose dimension is c\in(0,1)-\{1/2} if and only if the Riemann hypothesis is true. Later on, the spectral operator was introduced heuristically by M. L. Lapidus and M. van Frankenhuijsen in their theory of complex fractal dimensions [La-vF2, La-vF3] as a map that sends the geometry of a fractal string onto its spectrum. We focus here on presenting the rigorous results obtained by the authors in [HerLa1] about the invertibility of the spectral operator. We show that given any $c\geq0$, the spectral operator $\mathfrak{a}=\mathfrak{a}_{c}$, now precisely defined as an unbounded normal operator acting in a Hilbert space $\mathbb{H}_{c}$, is `quasi-invertible' (i.e., its truncations are invertible) if and only if the Riemann zeta function $\zeta=\zeta(s)$ does not have any zeroes on the line $Re(s)=c$. It follows that the associated inverse spectral problem has a positive answer for all possible dimensions $c\in (0,1)$, other than the mid-fractal case when $c=1/2$, if and only if the Riemann hypothesis is true.Comment: To appear in: "Fractal Geometry and Dynamical Systems in Pure and Applied Mathematics", Part 1 (D. Carfi, M. L. Lapidus, E. P. J. Pearse and M. van Frankenhuijsen, eds.), Contemporary Mathematics, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2013. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1203.482

Boundary Deformation Theory and Moduli Spaces of D-Branes

Boundary conformal field theory is the suitable framework for a microscopic treatment of D-branes in arbitrary CFT backgrounds. In this work, we develop boundary deformation theory in order to study the changes of boundary conditions generated by marginal boundary fields. The deformation parameters may be regarded as continuous moduli of D-branes. We identify a large class of boundary fields which are shown to be truly marginal, and we derive closed formulas describing the associated deformations to all orders in perturbation theory. This allows us to study the global topology properties of the moduli space rather than local aspects only. As an example, we analyse in detail the moduli space of c=1 theories, which displays various stringy phenomena.Comment: 62 pages, LaTeX, 3 ps-figures. References added, some typos corrected, final version to appear in Nucl. Phys.

Generalized Analytic Automorphic Forms for some Arithmetic Congruence subgroups of the Vahlen group on the n-Dimensional Hyperbolic Space

This paper deals with a new analytic type of vector- and Clifford algebra valued automorphic forms in one and two vector variables. For hypercomplex generalizations of the classical modular group and their arithmetic congruence subgroups Eisenstein- and Poincar\'e type series that are annihilated by Dirac operators, and more generally, by iterated Dirac operators on the upper half-space of $R^n$ are discussed. In particular we introduce (poly-)monogenic modular forms on hypercomplex generalizations of the classical theta group.Comment: 18 page