I Reason for Gram's Law about Zeta Zeros

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Gram's Law describes the tendency of the Zeta function, particularly on the critical line, where the real part of the Zeta function tends to be positive, indicating a correlation with the cosine function. The distinction between "good" and "bad" Gram points relates to the behavior of the Zeta function at these points, affecting the positivity of the integral involving Z(t). While Gram's Law primarily applies when the Zeta function is real, it appears to hold more broadly along the critical line. The discussion includes a formula for the sum of products of Z values at Gram points, suggesting a deeper relationship in their distribution. The Lambert W function is referenced as part of the formula used to approximate the behavior of theta for large t.
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I suppose you could phrase Gram's law as the statement that ##\Re(\zeta(\frac{1}{2}+it))## tends to be positive, or that ##Z(t)## is somehow positively correlated with ##\cos\theta(t)##. Although Gram's law only applies when ##\zeta(\frac{1}{2}+it)## is real, it seems to hold elsewhere on the critical line as well. The plot of ##\Re(\zeta(\frac{1}{2}+it))## is mostly positive, whereas the imaginary part appears to fluctuate rapidly:

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In particular, ##\int_0^T\cos\theta(t)\cdot Z(t)\,dt## is positive and large, while ##\int_0^T\sin\theta(t)\cdot Z(t)\,dt## is relatively small and might be positive or negative.

Actually, apparently there is a formula ##\sum_{n\leq N} Z(g_{n-1})Z(g_n) \sim -2(\gamma + 1)N##, which I found a few pages into this paper. I plotted the autocorrelation function of ##Z(g_n)## (integrating from 0 to 100,000) using the approximate formula ##g_n=2\pi e^{1+W(\frac{8n+1}{8e})}##:

Normalized plot of ##f(\tau)=\int_0^{10^5} Z(g(t))Z(g(t+\tau))\,dt##:
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I don't really have a full understanding of what I'm doing, but this is all very intriguing to me.
 
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Thank you.. I'm reading now on a mobile device but I'll probably get back later with a question or two.
 
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I plotted the autocorrelation function of ##Z(g_n)## (integrating from 0 to 100,000) using the approximate formula ##g_n=2\pi e^{1+W(\frac{8n+1}{8e})}##:
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What is the "W" in this formula?
 
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What is the "W" in this formula?
That's the Lambert W function. Nothing special, it's just there since ##\theta(t)\sim \frac{t}{2}\log\frac{t}{2\pi}## for ##t## large, and so its inverse function can be approximated using W.
 
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