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The cubic moment of $L$-functions for specified local component families

Number Theory 2026-03-16 v2

Abstract

We prove Lindel\"of-on-average upper bounds on the cubic moment of central values of LL-functions over certain families of PGL2/Q\operatorname{PGL}_2/\mathbb{Q} automorphic representations π\pi given by specifying the local representation πp\pi_p of π\pi at finitely many primes. Such bounds were previously known in the case that πp\pi_p belongs to the principal series or is a ramified quadratic twist of the Steinberg representation; here we handle the supercuspidal case. Crucially, we use new Petersson/Bruggeman-Kuznetsov forumulas for supercuspidal local component families recently developed by the authors. As corollaries, we derive Weyl-strength subconvex bounds for central values of PGL2\operatorname{PGL}_2 LL-functions in the square-full aspect, and in the depth aspect, or in a hybrid of these two situations. A special case of our results is the Weyl-subconvex bound for all cusp forms of level p2p^2. Previously, such a bound was only known for forms that are twists from level pp, which cover roughly half of the level p2p^2 forms.

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@article{arxiv.2506.14741,
  title  = {The cubic moment of $L$-functions for specified local component families},
  author = {Yueke Hu and Ian Petrow and Matthew P. Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.14741},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Accepted version. To appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS)