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Publications and source records attributed to Christopher G. Best.
We compute an asymptotic formula for the mixed second moment of the $\mu$-th and $\nu$-th derivatives of quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions over monic, irreducible polynomials in the function field setting.
We investigate the joint moments of derivatives of characteristic polynomials over the unitary symplectic group $Sp(2N)$ and the orthogonal ensembles $SO(2N)$ and $O^-(2N)$. We prove asymptotic formulae for the joint moments of the $n_1$-th and $n_2$-th derivatives of the characteristic polynomials for all three matrix ensembles. Our results give two explicit formulae for each of the leading order coefficients, one in terms of determinants of hypergeometric functions and the other as combinatorial sums over partitions. We use our results to put forward conjectures on the joint moments of derivatives of $L$-functions with symplectic and orthogonal symmetry.
We compute asymptotic formulae for the mollified first and second moments for the family of quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions in the function field setting. As an application, we obtain non-vanishing results for the derivatives of the completed $L$-functions $\Lambda(s,\chi_D)$ at the central point $s=1/2$. In particular, we show that the proportion of $\Lambda^{(2k)}(\frac{1}{2},\chi_D) \neq 0$ is $1+O(k^{-2})$ as $k \to \infty$.