We show that a class of Dirichlet series ${\mathfrak{A}}^{\#}$ that is much larger than the extended Selberg class ${\mathscr{S}}^{\#}$, and also contains the standard as well as the tensor product, exterior square and symmetric square $L$-functions of automorphic $L$-functions of $GL_n$ over number fields, does not have any elements of degrees between $1$ and $2$. The proof of our more general theorem is very different from the proof of Kaczorowski and Perelli for the class ${\mathscr{S}}^{\#}$, and is much shorter and simpler even in that case.
We try to understand the poles of L-functions via taking a limit in a trace formula. This technique avoids endoscopic and Kim-Shahidi methods. In particular, we investigate the poles of the Rankin-Selberg L-function. Using analytic number theory techniques to take this limit, we essentially get a new proof of the analyticity of the Rankin-Selberg L-function at $s=1.$ Along the way we discover the convolution operation for Bessel transforms.
Given a degree 1 function $F\in\mathcal{S}^{\sharp}$ and a real number $α$, we consider the linear twist $F(s,α)$, proving that it satisfies a functional equation reflecting $s$ into $1-s$, which can be seen as a Hurwitz-Lerch type of functional equation. We also derive some results on the distribution of the zeros of the linear twist.
Levinson and Montgomery proved that the Riemann zeta-function $ζ(s)$ and its derivative have approximately the same number of non-real zeros left of the critical line. R. Spira showed that $ζ'(1/2+it)=0$ implies $ζ(1/2+it)=0$. Here we obtain that in small areas located to the left of the critical line and near it the functions $ζ(s)$ and $ζ'(s)$ have the same number of zeros. We prove our result for more general zeta-functions from the extended Selberg class $S$. We also consider zero trajectories of a certain family of zeta-functions from $S$.
In 1956, Tong established an asymptotic formula for the mean square of the error term in the summatory function of the Piltz divisor function $d_3(n).$ The aim of this paper is to generalize Tong's method to a class of Dirichlet series that satisfy a functional equation. As an application, we can establish the asymptotic formulas for the mean square of the error terms for a class of functions in the well-known Selberg class. The Tong-type identity and formula established in this paper can be viewed as an analogue of the well-known Voronoï's formula.
We will introduce two new classes of Dirichlet series which are monoids under multiplication. The first class $\mathfrak{A}^{\#}$ contains both the extended Selberg class $\mathscr{S}^{\#}$ of Kaczorowski and Perelli as well as many $L$-functions attached to automorphic representations of ${\rm GL}_n({\mathbb A}_K)$, where ${\mathbb A}_K$ denotes the adèles over the number field $K$ (these representations need not be unitary or generic). This is in contrast to the class $\mathscr{S}^{\#}$ which is smaller and is known to contain, very few of these $L$-functions. The larger class is obtained by…
In this work we use the Rankin-Selberg method to obtain results on the analytic properties of the standard $L$-function attached to vector valued Siegel modular forms. In particular we provide a detailed description of its possible poles and obtain a non-vanishing result of the twisted $L$-function beyond the usual range of absolute convergence. We remark that these results were known in this generality only in the case of scalar weight Siegel modular forms. As an interesting by-product of our work we establish the cuspidality of some theta series.
We study the arithmetic (real) function f=g*1, with g "essentially bounded" and supported over the integers of [1,Q]. In particular, we obtain non-trivial bounds, through f "correlations", for the "Selberg integral" and the "symmetry integral" of f in almost all short intervals [x-h,x+h], N<x<2N, beyond the "classical" level, up to level of distribution, say, lambda=log Q/log N < 2/3 (for enough large h). This time we don't apply Large Sieve inequality, as in our paper [C-S]. Precisely, our method is completely elementary.
First we show that the abscissae of uniform and absolute convergence of Dirichlet series coincide in the case of $L$-functions from the Selberg class $\mathcal{S}$. We also study the latter abscissa inside the extended Selberg class, indicating a different behavior in the two classes. Next we address two questions about majorants of functions in $\mathcal{S}$, showing links with the distribution of the zeros and with independence results.
We give a full description of the functions $F$ of degree 2 and conductor 1 in the general framework of the extended Selberg class. This is performed by means of a new numerical invariant $χ_F$, which is easily computed from the data of the functional equation. We show that the value of $χ_F$ gives a precise description of the nature of $F$, thus providing a sharp form of the classical converse theorems of Hecke and Maass. In particular, our result confirms, in the special case under consideration, the conjecture that the functions in the Selberg class are automorphic $L$-functions.
We study the arithmetic (real) function, with f 'essentially bounded'. In particular, we obtain non-trivial bounds, through f 'correlations', for the 'Selberg integral' and the 'symmetry integral' of f in almost all short intervals $[x-h,x+h]$, $N\le x\le 2N$, beyond the 'classical' level, up to a very high level of distribution (for $h$ not too small). This time we go beyond Large Sieve inequality. Precisely, our method applies Weil bound for Kloosterman sums.
The Landau-Selberg-Delange (LSD) method gives an asymptotic formula for the partial sums of a multiplicative function $f$ whose prime values are $α$ on average. In the literature, the average is usually taken to be $α$ with a very strong error term, leading to an asymptotic formula for the partial sums with a very strong error term. In practice, the average at the prime values may only be known with a fairly weak error term, and so we explore here how good an estimate this will imply for the partial sums of $f$, developing new techniques to do so.
We finalize the analysis of the trace formula initiated in \cite{Altug:2015aa} and developed in \cite{Altug:2015ab}, and calculate the asymptotic expansion of the beyond endoscopic averages for the standard $L$-functions attached to weight $k\geq3$ cusp forms on $GL(2)$ (cf. Theorem \ref{mainthm}). This, in particular, constitutes the first example of beyond endoscopy executed via the Arthur-Selberg trace formula, as originally proposed in \cite{Langlands:2004aa}. As an application we also give a new proof of the analytic continuation of the $L$-function attached to Ramanujan's $Δ$-function.
In this paper we study the forbidden values of the conductor $q$ of the $L$-functions of degree 2 in the extended Selberg class by a novel technique, linking the problem to certain continued fractions and to their weight $w_q$. Our basic result states that if an $L$ function with conductor $q$ exists, then the weight $w_q$ is unique in a suitable sense. From this we deduce several results, both of theoretical and computational nature.
Let $F(s)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{a_n}{n^s}$ be a Dirichlet series in the axiomatically defined class ${\mathfrak A}^{\#}$ . The class ${\mathfrak A}^{\#}$ is known to contain the extended Selberg class ${\mathcal S}^{\#}$, as well as all the $L$-functions of automorphic forms on $GL_n/K$, where $K$ is a number field. Let $d$ be the degree of $F(s)$. We show that $\sum_{n<X}|a_n|=Ω(X^{\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2d}})$, and hence, that the abscissa of absolute convergence of $σ_a$ of $F(s)$ must satisfy $σ_a\ge 1/2+1/2d$.
Let $F(s)=\sum_n a_n/λ_n^s$ be a general Dirichlet series which is absolutely convergent on $\Re(s)>1$. Assume that $F(s)$ has an analytic continuation and satisfies a growth condition, which gives rise to certain invariants namely the degree $d_F$ and conductor $α_F$. In this paper, we show that there are at most $2d_F$ general Dirichlet series with a given degree $d_F$, conductor $α_F$ and residue $ρ_F$ at $s=1$. As a corollary, we get that elements in the extended Selberg class with positive Dirichlet coefficients are determined by their degree, conductor and the residue at $s=1$.
We investigate the reciprocity law, studied by Conrey~\cite{Con07} and Young~\cite{You11a}, for the second moment of Dirichlet L-functions twisted by $χ(a)$ modulo a prime $q$. We show that the error term in this reciprocity law can be extended to a continuous function of $a/q$ with respect to the real topology. Furthermore, we extend this reciprocity result, proving an exact formula involving also shifted moments. We also give an expression for the twisted second moment involving the coefficients of the continued fraction expansion of $a/q$, and, consequently, we improve upon a classical resu…
The temperature inversion properties of the internal energy, E, on odd spheres, and its derivatives, together with their expression in elliptic terms, as expounded in previous papers, are extended to the integrals of E, thence making contact with the theory of modular forms with rational period functions. I point out that the period functions of (holomorphic) Eisenstein series computed by Zagier were already available since the time of Ramanujan and I give a rederivation by contour integration. Removing both the Planck and Casimir terms gives a fully subtracted form of the series which allows …
