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SIGMA 20 (2024), 096, 4 pages      arXiv:2401.00586      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2024.096

Scale Invariant Scattering and Bernoulli Numbers

Thomas L. Curtright
Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA

Received June 07, 2024, in final form October 14, 2024; Published online October 24, 2024

Abstract
Non-relativistic quantum mechanical scattering from an inverse square potential in two spatial dimensions leads to a novel representation of the Bernoulli numbers.

Key words: scale invariance; Bernoulli numbers; Riemann hypothesis.

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