Number Theory Seminar

Thursday, October 19, 2017 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

John Friedlander, University of Toronto

"Exceptional characters and their consequences"

We review some history about the possible existence of certain Dirichlet characters which might possess a zero very close to the line $Re s = 1$ and the remarkably strong consequences which could be derived under the assumption of their existence.

MC 5501