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    Riemann Hypothesis and Random Walks: the Zeta case

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    In previous work it was shown that if certain series based on sums over primes of non-principal Dirichlet characters have a conjectured random walk behavior, then the Euler product formula for its LL-function is valid to the right of the critical line ℜ(s)>12\Re (s) > \tfrac{1}{2}, and the Riemann Hypothesis for this class of LL-functions follows. Building on this work, here we propose how to extend this line of reasoning to the Riemann zeta function and other principal Dirichlet LL-functions. We apply these results to the study of the argument of the zeta function. In another application, we define and study a 1-point correlation function of the Riemann zeros, which leads to the construction of a probabilistic model for them. Based on these results we describe a new algorithm for computing very high Riemann zeros, and we calculate the googol-th zero, namely 1010010^{100}-th zero to over 100 digits, far beyond what is currently known.Comment: version 2: A significantly better estimate of the error incurred in computing zeros from the primes has been include. version 3: Re-written in a more informal style; change of notation to avoid confusion with S(t
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