Dear Matthew Watkins,

   First I would like to congratulate you for the very interesting website
   you are developping day after day. I already used it many times when it
   was recommended to me by Michel Waldschmidt.
   I have also mentioned your web site in my recently published book:

   Noise, Oscillators and Algebraic Randomness: From Telecommunication
   Systems to Number Theory
   Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 550, Springer Verlag, 2000
   http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/2669/tocs/t0550.htm


   In this book, you can find papers presented at a School held in march
   1999 by 21 authors, including P. Cartier, M. Waldschmidt, S. Perrine, P.
   Cohen and others...
   There is also the paper you are asking for:

   "1/f noise in a communication receiver and the Riemann hypothesis", pp
   265-287

   Most of the content of the paper and more has been published as
   "On the frequency and amplitude spectrum and the fluctuations at the
   output of a communication receiver"
   M. Planat and C. Eckert
   IEEE Trans. on Ultrason, Ferroel. and Freq. Control
   47 (5), 1173-1182 (2000)

   There is also a pedestrian paper to be published in the first issue of
   the new journal
   Fluctuation and Noise Letters, edited by L. Kish
   ""1/f noise, the measurement of time and number theory"
   M. Planat

   I am attaching here these three papers for your information, but you
   should ask the relevant editors for permission to attach the papers at
   your web site. I guess you already encountered this problem with others
   authors.

   Concerning M. Wolf I know his paper which is referenced in my paper 3.
   In my opinion there is a power law in his analysis of the distribution
   of primes which is not true 1/f noise: I mean the exponent in the power
   spectrum is not close to 1. The same remark holds (this is now well
   known) for the paper on self organized criticality and 1/f noise by P.
   Bak where the power spectral density is proportional to 1/f^2, not 1/f.


   There is a stong connexion between 1/f noise and Riemann hypothesis: I
   have found it experimentally in papers 1 to 3 in the context of an
   analog communication receiver. Understanding this connexion will put
   Riemann hypothesis on a physical setting, that may help to solve the
   hypothesis and the 1/f noise problem, a cornerstone of physical
   measurements, and more (money, biology, evolution...)

   I believe your website is an important source of information for those
   interested by these subjects.


   At the time I am exploring the relationships between Riemann zeta
   function and statistical mechanics and already found new and stimulating
   links I will publish very soon.


   > > also very welcome to submit any informal notes or unpublished writings on
   > > the number theory/physics interface which would be appropriate for the site.
   Thank you, I will consider this opportunity.



   Very sincerely.


   Michel Planat
   LPMO CNRS
   32 Avenue de l'Observatoire
   25044 Besançon Cedex

   Tel: 03 81 85 39 57
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