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An unconditional explicit bound on the error term in the Sato-Tate conjecture

Number Theory 2022-01-26 v3

Abstract

Let f(z)=n=1af(n)qnf(z) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty a_f(n)q^n be a holomorphic cuspidal newform with even integral weight k2k\geq 2, level NN, trivial nebentypus, and no complex multiplication (CM). For all primes pp, we may define θp[0,π]\theta_p\in [0,\pi] such that af(p)=2p(k1)/2cosθpa_f(p) = 2p^{(k-1)/2}\cos \theta_p. The Sato-Tate conjecture states that the angles θp\theta_p are equidistributed with respect to the probability measure μST(I)=2πIsin2θ  dθ\mu_{\textrm{ST}}(I) = \frac{2}{\pi}\int_I \sin^2 \theta \; d\theta, where I[0,π]I\subseteq [0,\pi]. Using recent results on the automorphy of symmetric-power LL-functions due to Newton and Thorne, we explicitly bound the error term in the Sato-Tate conjecture when ff corresponds to an elliptic curve over Q\mathbb{Q} of arbitrary conductor or when ff has squarefree level. In these cases, if πf,I(x):=#{px:pN,θpI}\pi_{f,I}(x) := \#\{ p \leq x : p \nmid N, \theta_p\in I\}, and π(x):=#{px}\pi(x) := \# \{ p \leq x \}, we prove the following bound: πf,I(x)π(x)μST(I)58.1log((k1)Nlogx)logxforx3.\left| \frac{\pi_{f,I}(x)}{\pi(x)} - \mu_{\textrm{ST}}(I)\right| \leq 58.1\frac{\log((k-1)N \log{x})}{\sqrt{\log{x}}} \qquad \text{for} \quad x \geq 3. As an application, we give an explicit bound for the number of primes up to xx that violate the Atkin-Serre conjecture for ff.

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@article{arxiv.2108.03520,
  title  = {An unconditional explicit bound on the error term in the Sato-Tate conjecture},
  author = {Alexandra Hoey and Jonas Iskander and Steven Jin and Fernando Trejos Suárez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03520},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

31 pages; minor improvements in exposition; minor typos fixed

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