Arithmetical Aspects of Beurling's Real Variable Reformulation of the Riemann Hypothesis

Abstract

The paper presents two arithmetical versions of the Nyman-Beurling equivalence with the Riemann hypothesis, proved by classical, quasi elementary, number-theoretic methods, based on an integrated version of the classical combinatorial identity for Moebius numbers. These proofs also give insight into the troublesome phenomenon that many natural sequences of Beurling functions tending to the indicator function of (0,1) both pointwise and in L1 norm do not converge in L2 norm.