Huxley's zero-density estimate for
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Let be the number of zeros of with and , counted with multiplicity. For every and every ,
This is Huxley's zero-density estimate (1971/72), unconditional; it improves on Ingham's exponent exactly when .
Formalization Note The source does not state the range of ; it is taken to be , the range of Huxley's theorem (the two exponents coincide at , as the source notes). Counts are elements of (cast to ), so the bound also asserts that the count is finite.
Preamble
import Mathlib import Definitions.Def_RiemannVonMangoldt_ZeroCounts import Definitions.Def_LindelofHypothesis_GrowthAndZeroCounts open Complex Filter Asymptotics open scoped ENNReal
Formal statement
namespace LindelofHypothesis
theorem huxley_density_estimate (σ : ℝ) (hσ₀ : 3 / 4 ≤ σ) (hσ₁ : σ ≤ 1) (ε : ℝ) (hε : 0 < ε) :
∃ C : ℝ, ∀ᶠ T in atTop,
(zeroDensityCount σ T : ℝ≥0∞) ≤ ENNReal.ofReal (C * T ^ (3 / (3 * σ - 1) * (1 - σ) + ε)) := by sorry
end LindelofHypothesis
Source
Wikipedia, "Lindelöf hypothesis" (snapshot supplied as Lindelöf_hypothesis.pdf, printed 12 Oct 2026), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindel%C3%B6f_hypothesis; section "The density hypothesis", sentence "Huxley that A_H(σ) = 3/(3σ − 1) in 1971" and the crossing point σ_{I,H} = 3/4.
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