Non-vanishing for cubic Hecke $L$-functions

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Autori principali: David, Chantal, de Faveri, Alexandre, Dunn, Alexander, Stucky, Joshua
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author David, Chantal
de Faveri, Alexandre
Dunn, Alexander
Stucky, Joshua
author_facet David, Chantal
de Faveri, Alexandre
Dunn, Alexander
Stucky, Joshua
contents Let $ω$ be a primitive cubic root of unity. We study the non-vanishing problem for the family of Hecke $L$-functions associated to primitive cubic characters defined over the Eisenstein quadratic number field $\mathbb{Q}(ω)$. We prove unconditionally that a positive proportion of Hecke $L$-functions associated to the cubic residue symbols $χ_q$ with $q \in \mathbb{Z}[ω]$ squarefree and $q \equiv 1 \pmod{9}$ do not vanish at the central point. Our proof goes through the method of first and second mollified moments. The principal new contribution of this paper is the asymptotic evaluation of the mollified second moment with power saving error term. No asymptotic formula for the mollified second moment of a cubic family was known (even over function fields) prior to the writing of this paper. Our new approach makes crucial use of Patterson's evaluation of the Fourier coefficients of the cubic metaplectic theta function, Heath-Brown's cubic large sieve, and a Lindelöf-on-average upper bound for the second moment of cubic Dirichlet series that we establish. The significance of our result is that the (unitary) family considered does not satisfy a perfectly orthogonal large sieve bound. This is quite unlike other families of Dirichlet $L$-functions in the literature for which unconditional results are known: the symplectic family of quadratic characters and the unitary family of all Dirichlet characters $χ\pmod{q}$. Consequently, our proof has fundamentally different features from the corresponding works of Soundararajan and of Iwaniec and Sarnak.
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spellingShingle Non-vanishing for cubic Hecke $L$-functions
David, Chantal
de Faveri, Alexandre
Dunn, Alexander
Stucky, Joshua
Number Theory
11M20 (Primary) 11F30, 11L05, 11R42, 11M06, 11R16 (Secondary)
Let $ω$ be a primitive cubic root of unity. We study the non-vanishing problem for the family of Hecke $L$-functions associated to primitive cubic characters defined over the Eisenstein quadratic number field $\mathbb{Q}(ω)$. We prove unconditionally that a positive proportion of Hecke $L$-functions associated to the cubic residue symbols $χ_q$ with $q \in \mathbb{Z}[ω]$ squarefree and $q \equiv 1 \pmod{9}$ do not vanish at the central point. Our proof goes through the method of first and second mollified moments. The principal new contribution of this paper is the asymptotic evaluation of the mollified second moment with power saving error term. No asymptotic formula for the mollified second moment of a cubic family was known (even over function fields) prior to the writing of this paper. Our new approach makes crucial use of Patterson's evaluation of the Fourier coefficients of the cubic metaplectic theta function, Heath-Brown's cubic large sieve, and a Lindelöf-on-average upper bound for the second moment of cubic Dirichlet series that we establish. The significance of our result is that the (unitary) family considered does not satisfy a perfectly orthogonal large sieve bound. This is quite unlike other families of Dirichlet $L$-functions in the literature for which unconditional results are known: the symplectic family of quadratic characters and the unitary family of all Dirichlet characters $χ\pmod{q}$. Consequently, our proof has fundamentally different features from the corresponding works of Soundararajan and of Iwaniec and Sarnak.
title Non-vanishing for cubic Hecke $L$-functions
topic Number Theory
11M20 (Primary) 11F30, 11L05, 11R42, 11M06, 11R16 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03048