Functions and Analysis

   

Fractional Distance: The Topology of the Real Number Line with Applications to the Riemann Hypothesis

Authors: Jonathan W. Tooker

Recent analysis has uncovered a broad swath of rarely considered real numbers called real numbers in the neighborhood of infinity. Here, we extend the catalog of the rudimentary analytical properties of all real numbers by defining a set of fractional distance functions on the real number line and studying their behavior. The main results are (1) to prove with modest axioms that some real numbers are greater than any natural number, (2) to develop a technique for taking a limit at infinity via the ordinary Cauchy definition reliant on the classical epsilon-delta formalism, and (3) to demonstrate an infinite number of non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function in the neighborhood of infinity. We define numbers in the neighborhood of infinity with a Cartesian product of Cauchy equivalence classes of rationals. We axiomatize the arithmetic of such numbers, prove the operations are well-defined, and then make comparisons to the similar axioms of a complete ordered field. After developing the many underlying foundations, we present a basis for a topology.

Comments: 147 Pages. Remedied a few errata. Grammar and punctuation updates.

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[v1] 2021-11-14 19:10:05
[v2] 2023-07-17 14:39:26
[v3] 2023-07-26 19:10:04
[v4] 2023-08-08 17:18:08

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