Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
A crucial role in the Nyman-Beurling-Báez-Duarte approach to the Riemann Hypothesis is played by the distance
where the infimum is over all Dirichlet polynomials
of length $N$. In this paper we investigate $d_{N}^{2}$ under the assumption that the Riemann zeta function has four nontrivial zeros off the critical line.