A spectral interpretation for the explicit formula in the theory of prime numbers

Abstract

A spectral interpretation for the poles and zeros of the L-function of algebraic number fields is given by Meyer. As Meyer works with Schwartz spaces which are not Hilbert spaces, the information on the location of zeros of the L-function is lost. In 1999, A. Connes gave a spectral interpretation for the critical zeros the Riemann zeta function. He works with Hilbert spaces. In this paper, we show that a variant of Connes’ trace formula is essentially equal to the explicit formula of A. Weil.