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We compute the twisted first and second moments of the shifted central values of the Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions given by $L\left(\frac12+ω, f\otimes g\right)$ as $f$ varies over primitive forms of prime power level $p^ν$ with $ν\geq 3$. Here $ω$ is a bounded shift and $g$ is a fixed primitive form of level relatively prime to $p$.
We improve 1987 estimates of Patterson for sums of quartic Gauss sums over primes. Our Type-I and Type-II estimates feature new ideas, including use of the quadratic large sieve over $\mathbb{Q}(i)$, and Suzuki's evaluation of the Fourier-Whittaker coefficients of quartic theta functions at squares. We also conjecture asymptotics for certain moments of quartic Gauss sums over primes.
Let $L(s,f)$ be the $L$-function associated with a newform $f$ of even weight $k$, squarefree level $N$ and trivial nebentypus. In this paper, we establish a new explicit zero-free region for $L(s,f)$. More precisely, we prove that $L(s,f)$ does not vanish in the region $\Re(s)\geq 1-\frac{1}{C\log(kN\max(1,|\Im(s)|))}$ with $C=16.7053$ if $|\Im(s)|\geq 1$ or $|\Im(s)|\leq \frac{0.30992}{\log(kN)}$ and $C=16.9309$ if $\frac{0.30992}{\log(kN)}<|\Im(s)|\leq 1$. This improves a result of Hoey et al. where $445.994$ was shown to be an admissible value for $C$.
In this article, we study the density conjecture of Katz and Sarnak for $L$-functions of adélic Hilbert modular forms and their convolutions. In particular, under the generalised Riemann hypothesis, we establish several instances supporting the conjecture and extending the works of Iwaniec-Luo-Sarnak and many others. For applications, we obtain an upper bound for the average order of $L$-functions of Hilbert modular forms at $s=\frac{1}{2}$ as well as a positive proportion of non-vanishing of certain Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions.
This is a list of problems that were collected from participants at the Comparative Prime Number Theory Symposium held at UBC from June 17 to June 21, 2024. Its goal is to stimulate research and future collaborations in this growing field. This event was part of the PIMS (Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Collaborative Research Group L-functions in Analytic Number Theory: 2022- 2025.
This is an ongoing list of problems that has resulted from the PIMS (Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Collaborative Research Group L-functions in Analytic Number Theory: 2022- 2025. The focus of this list is on Moments of $L$-functions and related topics.
Given a multiplicative function $f$, we let $S(x,f)=\sum_{n\leq x}f(n)$ be the associated partial sum. In this note, we show that lower bounds on partial sums of divisor-bounded functions result in lower bounds on the partial sums associated to their products. More precisely, we let $f_j$, $j=1,2$ be such that $|f_j(n)|\leq τ(n)^κ$ for some $κ\in\mathbb{N}$, and assume their partial sums satisfy $\left|S(x_j,f_j)\right|\geq ηx_j (\log x_j)^{2^κ-1}$ for some $x_1, x_2\gg 1$ and $η>\max_j\{(\log x_j)^{-1/100}\}$. We then show that there exists $x\geq \min\{x_1, x_2\}^{ξ^2}$ such that $\left|S(x,f_1f_2)\right|\geq ξx (\log x)^{2^{2κ}-1}$, where $ξ=Cη^{1+2^{κ+3}}$ for some absolute constant $C>0$.
In this article, we prove an asymptotic formula for the mean value of long smoothed Dirichlet polynomials with divisor coefficients. Our result has a main term that includes all lower order terms and a power saving error term. This is derived from a more general theorem on mean values of long smoothed Dirichlet polynomials that was previously established by the second and third authors. We thus establish a stronger form of a conjecture of Conrey and Gonek in the case of divisor functions.
Let $N$ be a fixed positive integer, and let $f\in S_k(N)$ be a primitive cusp form given by the Fourier expansion $f(z)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} λ_f(n)n^{\frac{k-1}{2}}e(nz)$. We consider the partial sum $S(x,f)=\sum_{n\leq x}λ_f(x)$. It is conjectured that $S(x,f)=o(x\log x)$ in the range $x\geq k^ε$. Lamzouri proved in arXiv:1703.10582 [math.NT] that this is true under the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis (GRH) for $L(s,f)$. In this paper, we prove that this conjecture holds under a weaker assumption than GRH. In particular, we prove that given $ε>(\log k)^{-\frac{1}{8}}$ and $1\leq T\leq (\log k)^{\frac{1}{200}}$, we have $S(x,f)\ll \frac{x\log x}{T}$ in the range $x\geq k^ε$ provided that $L(s,f)$ has no more than $ε^2\log k/5000$ zeros in the region $\left\{s\,:\, \Re(s)\geq \frac34, \, |\Im(s)-ϕ| \leq \frac14\right\}$ for every real number $ϕ$ with $|ϕ|\leq T$.
Let $d\in\mathbb{N}$, and let $π$ be a fixed cuspidal automorphic representation of $\mathrm{GL}_{d}(\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{Q}})$ with unitary central character. We determine the limiting distribution of the family of values $-\frac{L'}{L}(1+it,π\otimesχ_D)$ as $D$ varies over fundamental discriminants. Here, $t$ is a fixed real number and $χ_D$ is the real character associated with $D$. We establish an upper bound on the discrepancy in the convergence of this family to its limiting distribution. As an application of this result, we obtain an upper bound on the small values of $\left|\frac{L'}{L}(1,π\otimesχ_D)\right|$ when $π$ is self-dual.
In this article, we prove an asymptotic formula for mean values of long Dirichlet polynomials with higher order shifted divisor functions, assuming a smoothed additive divisor conjecture for higher order shifted divisor functions. As a consequence of this work, we prove special cases of conjectures of Conrey-Keating on mean values of long Dirichlet polynomials with higher order shifted divisor functions as coefficients.
We determine the limiting distribution of the family of values $\frac{L'}{L}(1/2+ε,χ_D)$ as $D$ varies over fundamental discriminants. Here, $0<ε<\frac12$, and $χ_D$ is the real character associated with $D$. Moreover, we also establish an upper bound for the rate of convergence of this family to its limiting distribution. As a consequence of this result, we derive an asymptotic bound for the small values of $\left|\frac{L'}{L}(1/2+ε,χ_D)\right|$.
We establish the two-dimensional asymptotic distributions of the logarithm and logarithmic derivative of $L$-functions associated with a family of cubic Hecke characters. A crucial ingredient in the proof of our main result is an exponential decay estimate for the characteristic functions of the distributions.
In this paper, we show that, on average, the derivatives of $L$-functions of cuspidal Hilbert modular forms with sufficiently large weight $k$ do not vanish on the line segments $\Im(s)=t_{0}$, $\Re(s)\in(\frac{k-1}{2},\frac{k}{2}-ε)\cup(\frac{k}{2}+ε,\frac{k+1}{2})$. This is analogous to the case of classical modular forms.
Let $k=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-3})$, and let $c\in \mathfrak{O}_k$ be a square free algebraic integer such that $c\equiv 1~({\rm mod}~{\langle9\rangle})$. Let $ζ_{k(c^{1/3})}(s)$ be the Dedekind zeta function of the cubic field $k(c^{1/3})$ and $ζ_k(s)$ be the Dedekind zeta function of $k$. For fixed real $σ>1/2$, we obtain asymptotic distribution functions $F_σ$ for the values of the logarithm and the logarithmic derivative of the Artin $L$-functions \begin{equation*} L_c(σ)= \frac{ζ_{k(c^{1/3})}(σ)}{ζ_k(σ)}, \end{equation*} as $c$ varies. Moreover, we express the characteristic function of $F_σ$ explicitly as a product indexed by the prime ideals of $\mathfrak{O}_k$. As a corollary of our results, we establish the existence of an asymptotic distribution function for the error term of the Brauer-Siegel asymptotic formula for the family of number fields $\{k(c^{1/3})\}_{c}$. We also deduce a similar result for the Euler-Kronecker constants of this family.
In this paper, we study the non-vanishing of the central values of the Rankin-Selberg $L$-function of two adèlic Hilbert primitive forms ${\bf f}$ and ${\bf g}$, both of which have varying weight parameter $k$. We prove that, for sufficiently large $k$, there are at least $\frac{k}{(\log k)^{c}}$ adèlic Hilbert primitive forms ${\bf f}$ of weight $k$ for which $L(\frac12, {\bf f}\otimes{\bf g})$ are nonzero.
The goal of this paper is to obtain lower bounds on the height of an algebraic number in a relative setting, extending previous work of Amoroso and Masser. Specifically, in our first theorem we obtain an effective bound for the height of an algebraic number $α$ when the base field $\mathbb{K}$ is a number field and $\mathbb{K}(α)/\mathbb{K}$ is Galois. Our second result establishes an explicit height bound for any non-zero element $α$ which is not a root of unity in a Galois extension $\mathbb{F}/\mathbb{K}$, depending on the degree of $\mathbb{K}/\mathbb{Q}$ and the number of conjugates of $α$ which are multiplicatively independent over $\mathbb{K}$. As a consequence, we obtain a height bound for such $α$ that is independent of the multiplicative independence condition.
In this paper, we prove that a primitive Hilbert cusp form $\mathbf{g}$ is uniquely determined by the central values of the Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions $L(\mathbf{f}\otimes\mathbf{g}, \frac{1}{2})$, where $\mathbf{f}$ runs through all primitive Hilbert cusp forms of level $\mathfrak{q}$ for infinitely many prime ideals $\mathfrak{q}$. This result is a generalization of a theorem of Luo to the setting of totally real number fields.