Root number bias for newforms
Number Theory
2025-10-31 v3
Abstract
Previously we observed that newforms obey a strict bias towards root number in squarefree levels: at least half of the newforms in with root number for squarefree, and it is strictly more than half outside of a few special cases. Subsequently, other authors treated levels which are cubes of squarefree numbers. Here we treat arbitrary levels, and find that if the level is not the square of a squarefree number, this strict bias still holds for any weight. In fact the number of such exceptional levels is finite for fixed weight, and 0 if . We also investigate some variants of this question to better understand the exceptional levels.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2207.08121,
title = {Root number bias for newforms},
author = {Kimball Martin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08121},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
16 pages; this version corrects a mathematical misprint in the published version