Finding the mean square averages of the Dirichlet $L$-functions over Dirichlet characters $χ$ of same parity is an active problem in number theory. Here we explicitly evaluate such averages of $L(3,χ)$ and $L(4,χ)$ using certain trigonometric sums and Bernoulli polynomials and express them in terms of the Euler totient function $ϕ$ and the Jordan totient function $J_s$.
We establish an analogue of a conjecture of Balasubramanian, Conrey, and Heath-Brown for the family of all Dirichlet characters with conductor up to $Q$. This forms another application of our work in developing an asymptotic large sieve.
In this work, we obtain an asymptotic formula for the twisted mean square of a Dirichlet $L$-function with a longer mollifier, whose coefficients are also more general than before. As an application we obtain that, for every Dirichlet $L$-function, more than 41.72\% of zeros are on the critical line and more than 40.74\% of zeros are simple and on the critical line. These proportions also improve previous results which were proved only for the Riemann zeta-function.
Let $π$ be a cuspidal representation on $\GL(2,\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{Q}}).$ We give nontrivial lower and upper bounds for average of absolute values of Dirichlet coefficients associated to $π;$ and nontrivial upper bound in the case of $\Sym^kπ,$ $k=2, 3.$ These bounds generalize the known estimates in holomorphic case to Maass forms, without assuming Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture.
We consider the asymptotic behavior of the mean square of truncations of the Dirichlet series of $ζ(s)^k$. We discuss the connections of this problem with that of the variance of the divisor function in short intervals and in arithmetic progressions, reviewing the recent results on this topic. Finally, we show how these results can all be proved assuming a suitable version of the moments conjecture.
Using the Kuznetsov trace formula, we prove a spectral decomposition for the sums of generalized Dirichlet $L$-functions. Among applications are an explicit formula relating norms of prime geodesics to moments of symmetric square $L$-functions and an asymptotic expansion for the average of central values of generalized Dirichlet $L$-functions.
We introduce Möbius functions of higher rank, a new class of arithmetic functions so that the classical Möbius function is of rank 2. With this idea, we evaluate Dirichlet series on the sum of the reciprocal square of all $r$-free numbers. For the proof, the Riemann zeta function and cyclotomic polynomials play a key role.
We prove that $$ \int_1^XΔ(x)Δ_3(x)\,dx \ll X^{13/9}\log^{10/3}X, \quad \int_1^XΔ(x)Δ_4(x)\,dx \ll_\varepsilon X^{25/16+\varepsilon}, $$ where $Δ_k(x)$ is the error term in the asymptotic formula for the summatory function of $d_k(n)$, generated by $ζ^k(s)$ ($Δ_2(x) \equiv Δ(x)$). These bounds are sharper than the ones which follow by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and mean square results for $Δ_k(x)$. We also obtain the analogues of the above bounds when $\D(x)$ is replaced by $E(x)$, the error term in the mean square formula for $|ζ(1/2+it)|$.
We study the second moment of Dirichlet $L$-functions to a large prime modulus $q$ twisted by the square of an arbitrary Dirichlet polynomial. We break the $\frac{1}{2}$-barrier in this problem, and obtain an asymptotic formula provided that the length of the Dirichlet polynomial is less than $q^{51/101} = q^{1/2 +1/202}$. As an application, we obtain an upper bound of the correct order of magnitude for the third moment of Dirichlet $L$-functions. We give further results when the coefficients of the Dirichlet polynomial are more specialized.
Katz showed that the L-functions of all Dirichlet characters of F_q(t), with conductor a fixed power of a degree one prime, are equidistributed in the limit as q goes to infinity. We generalize this statement to the L-functions of twists of an arbitrary Galois representation by Dirichlet characters, including independence of the L-functions of twists of different representations by the same Dirichlet character. A similar generalization, without the independence statement, for characters with squarefree conductor, was proven by Hall, Keating, and Roditty-Gershon.
In this paper, we calculate the absolute tensor square of the Dirichlet $L$-functions and show that it is expressed as an Euler product over pairs of primes. The method is to construct an equation to link primes to a series which has the factors of the absolute tensor product of the Dirichlet $ L $-functions. This study is a generalization of Akatsuka's theorem on the Riemann zeta function, and gives a proof of Kurokawa's prediction proposed in 1992.
We prove the q-aspect analogue of Heath-Brown's result on the twelfth power moment of the Riemann zeta function for Dirichlet L-functions to odd prime power moduli. Our results rely on the p-adic method of stationary phase for sums of products and complement Nunes' bound for smooth square-free moduli.
We evaluate the average of cubic and quartic Dirichlet character sums with the modulus going up to a size comparable to the length of the individual sums. This generalizes a result of Conrey, Farmer and Soundararajan on quadratic Dirichlet character sums.
This paper improves the upper bound for the exceptional zeroes of Dirichlet L-functions with even characters. The result is obtained by improving on explicit estimate for $L'(σ;χ)$ for $σ$ close to unity, using a result on the average of Dirichlet characters, and on the lower bound for $L(1;χ)$, with computational aid.
For a positive integer $q\not\equiv 2 \pmod 4$, this work considers the fourth moment of Dirichlet $L$-functions averaged over both $t\in [0,T]$ and primitive characters to modulus $q$. An asymptotic formula with a power saving from both $q$-aspect and $t$-aspect in the error term is obtained.
In a previous paper we proved that if an $L$-function $F$ from the Selberg class has degree $2$, its conductor $q_F$ is a prime number and $F$ is weakly twist-regular at all primes $p\neq q_F$, then $F$ has a polynomial Euler product. In this paper we extend this result to $L$-functions of degree 2 with square-free conductor $q_F$, which are weakly twist-regular at all primes $p\nmid q_F$
In this paper, we give an asymptotic formula for the second moment of Dirichlet twists of an automorphic $L$-function $L(s, π)$ on the critical line averaged over characters and conductors, where $π$ denotes an irreducible tempered cuspidal automorphic representation of $\textrm{GL}_{4}$ with unitary central character. We give some hybrid bound for the error term with respect to the size of conductors of Dirichlet characters and that of the automorphic representation.
We calculate mean values of $\operatorname{GL}_n$-automorphic $L$-functions twisted by primitive even Dirichlet characters of prime-power conductor, at arbitrary points within the critical strip, by derivation of special Voronoi summation formulae. Our calculation is novel in that the twisted sum can be expressed in terms of the average itself, and also that it sees the derivation of various new summation formulae in the setting of prime-power modulus. One consequence, as we explain, is to show the analytic continuation and additive summation formulae for hyper-Kloosterman Dirichlet series ass…
We prove a Lindelöf-on-average upper bound for the fourth moment of Dirichlet $L$-functions of conductor $q$ along a coset of the subgroup of characters modulo $d$ when $q^*|d$, where $q^*$ is the least positive integer such that $q^2|(q^*)^3$. As a consequence, we finish the previous work of the authors and establish a Weyl-strength subconvex bound for all Dirichlet $L$-functions with no restrictions on the conductor.
Assuming a conjecture on distinct zeros of Dirichlet L-functions we get asymptotic results on the average number of representations of an integer as the sum of two primes in arithmetic progression. On the other hand the existence of good error terms gives information on the the location of zeros of L-functions and possible Siegel zeros. Similar results are obtained for an integer in a congruence class expressed as the sum of two primes.