# Is there a good (preferably comprehensive) list of which conjectures imply the Riemann Hypothesis?

I wanted to prepare a presentation for the students I tutor on the Clay Millennium problems.

This is directed at the Riemann Hypothesis and the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis.

The Wikipedia article is good at showing how many conjectures be come true if RH or GRH is proven to be true; i.e. GRH => something.

What am looking for is list of possible solution paths where: If something is true, then the GRH (or the RH) is true; i.e. Conjecture X => GRH.

And I am looking the third list of possible solution paths where: Something is equivalent to GRH (or the RH); i.e. Conjecture X is true IFF GRH is true.

The Wikipedia article is good on list 1 (GRH implies Conjecture X) and 3 (GRH equivalent to Conjecture X), but not for list 2:

If Conjecture X is true, then the GRH (or RH) is true; i.e. Conjecture X implies GRH.

I am looking for references to fill out this second list for my presentation.

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So on the equivalent list there is Li's criterion and Weil's criterion. I did not think this question would be so interesting. I may have to make a page on my domain to capture the results in a centralized location. –  John Washburn Jan 14 '14 at 20:19

I looked through the wikipedia link, it is also weak on statements equivalent to RH.

The three elementary ones all go back to NICOLAS, see item number 87 at PAPERs which has a pdf and is Jean-Louis Nicolas. Petites valeurs de la fonction d'Euler, J. Number Theory, 17, 1983, 375--388. petitsphi83.pdf

See also PLANAT for a fascinating relationship with Cramer's conjecture. And Is the Euler phi function bounded below?

Next is Robin 1984 . Robin was a student of Nicolas. Evidently I got this article from the library.

Finally LAGARIAS.

These are the ones I would choose to tell students, especially Nicolas. I did a pretty substantial computation of the relevant estimates using the primorial numbers. The relevant column just kept growing, but Planat showed that if it grows forever (the limit is 1) there would be trouble.

Also see any answers I gave with the words Highly Composite Numbers or Colossally Abundant Numbers.

Planat numbers:

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Xian-Jin Li has one:en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li's_criterion –  Brian Rushton Jan 12 '14 at 20:28
@BrianRushton, thank you. Did not know that one. –  Will Jagy Jan 12 '14 at 20:31
Granville & Tucker seems to imply a respectively weaker(?) GRH from ABC. –  Balarka Sen Jan 17 '14 at 7:19
@BalarkaSen, found it, It's As Easy As $abc,$ Notices of the AMS, volume 49, number 10, November 2002, pages 1224-1231. –  Will Jagy Jan 17 '14 at 15:56
Yes, that is the one. –  Balarka Sen Jan 17 '14 at 15:58