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Small gaps between zeros of twisted L-functions

Number Theory 2012-02-14 v1

Abstract

We use the asymptotic large sieve, developed by the authors, to prove that if the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis is true, then there exist many Dirichlet L-functions that have a pair of consecutive zeros closer together than 0.37 times their average spacing. More generally, we investigate zero spacings within the family of twists by Dirichlet characters of a fixed L-function and give precise bounds for small gaps which depend only on the degree of the L-function.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1202.2671,
  title  = {Small gaps between zeros of twisted L-functions},
  author = {J. B. Conrey and H. Iwaniec and K. Soundararajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.2671},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

19 pages; to appear in Acta Arithmetica

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