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Hilbert–Pólya conjecture

A geometric representation of the Hilbert-Pólya conjecture, featuring a central sphere surrounded by a network of interconnected points and lines, symbolizing the relationship between the zeta function's non-trivial zeros and the eigenvalues of a self-adjoint operator.

The folklore proposal, attributed to David Hilbert and George Pólya, that the imaginary parts of the non-trivial zeros of the zeta function are the eigenvalues of some self-adjoint operator — that is, of a quantum-mechanical system. Such an operator, if found, would force the zeros onto the critical line and prove the Riemann Hypothesis. The operator has never been identified.

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