The cubic moment of $L$-functions for specified local component families
Abstract
We prove Lindel\"of-on-average upper bounds on the cubic moment of central values of -functions over certain families of automorphic representations given by specifying the local representation of at finitely many primes. Such bounds were previously known in the case that 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 -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 . Previously, such a bound was only known for forms that are twists from level , which cover roughly half of the level forms.
Cite
@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)