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We establish upper bounds for shifted moments of cubic and quartic Dirichlet $L$-functions under the generalized Riemann hypothesis. As an application, we prove bounds for moments of cubic and quartic Dirichlet character sums.

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We prove a lower bound of the correct order of magnitude in the conductor aspect for small rational moments of Drichlet $L$-functions. Such bounds require new techniques, which is visible from the relationship to non-vanishing results for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-30 Vorrapan Chandee , Xiannan Li

There has recently been some interest in optimizing the error term in the asymptotic for the fourth moment of Dirichlet L-functions and a closely related mixed moment of L-functions involving automorphic L-functions twisted by Dirichlet…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Rizwanur Khan , Zeyuan Zhang

We study the $2k$-th moment of central values of the family of primitive cubic and quartic Dirichlet $L$-functions. We establish sharp lower bounds for all real $k \geq 1/2$ unconditionally for the cubic case and under the Lindel\"of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Peng Gao , Liangyi Zhao

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…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-03 H. M. Bui , Kyle Pratt , Nicolas Robles , Alexandru Zaharescu

We establish lower bounds for the $2k$-th moment of central values of the family of primitive Dirichlet $L$-functions to a fixed prime modulus for all real $k<0$, assuming the non-vanishing of these $L$-values.

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We study the third moment of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions, obtaining an error term of size $O(X^{3/4 + \varepsilon})$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Matthew P. Young

We prove a Lindel\"of-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…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Ian Petrow , Matthew P. Young

In this paper, we establish the expected order of magnitude of the $k$th-moment of central values of the family of Dirichlet $L$-functions to a fixed prime modulus over function fields for all real $k \geq 0$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Peng Gao , Liangyi Zhao

In this paper, we use the methods of Andrade, Rudnick and Soundarajan to prove a Theorem about Lower bounds of moments of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions associated to monic irreducible polynomials over function fields.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-15 J. MacMillan

We obtain an asymptotic formula for the fourth moment of central values of a family of quadratic Hecke $L$-functions in the Gaussian field under the generalized Riemann hypothesis (GRH). We also establish lower bounds unconditionally and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Peng Gao

We consider the multiple Dirichlet series associated to the $k$th moment of real Dirichlet $L$-functions, and prove that it has a meromorphic continuation to a specific region in $\mathbb{C}^{k+1}$, which is conditional under the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Martin Čech

The moments of central values of families of L-functions have recently attracted much attention and, with the work of Keating and Snaith, there are now precise conjectures for their limiting values. We develop a simple method to establish…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Z. Rudnick , K. Soundararajan

We prove an asymptotic formula for the eighth moment of Dirichlet $L$-functions averaged over primitive characters $\chi$ modulo $q$, over all moduli $q\leq Q$ and with a short average on the critical line. Previously the same result was…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Vorrapan Chandee , Xiannan Li , Kaisa Matomäki , Maksym Radziwiłł

We compute asymptotic formulae for the mollified first and second moments for the family of quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions in the function field setting. As an application, we obtain non-vanishing results for the derivatives of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Julio C. Andrade , Christopher G. Best

We obtain an asymptotic formula for the smoothly weighted first moment of primitive quadratic Dirichlet L-functions at the central point, with an error term that is "square-root" of the main term. Our approach uses a recursive technique…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Matthew P. Young

We evaluate the twisted four moment on the critical line of the family of Dirichlet $L$-functions to a fixed prime power modulus, obtaining an asymptotic formula with a power saving error term.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Peng Gao , Liangyi Zhao

In this paper, we establish the expected order of magnitude of the $k$th-moment of quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions associated to hyperelliptic curves of genus $g$ as well as of prime moduli over a fixed finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Peng Gao , Liangyi Zhao

We prove an asymptotic for the eighth moment of Dirichlet $L$-functions averaged over primitive characters $\chi$ modulo $q$, over all moduli $q\leq Q$ and with a short average on the critical line, conditionally on GRH. We derive the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-09 Vorrapan Chandee , Xiannan Li

We derive formulas for the terms in the conjectured asymptotic expansions of the moments, at the central point, of quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions, $L(1/2,\chi_d)$, and also of the $L$-functions associated to quadratic twists of an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-18 Ian P. Goulden , Duc Khiem Huynh , Rishikesh , Michael O. Rubinstein