For $1\le c\le p-1$, let $E_1,E_2,\cdots ,E_m$ be fixed numbers of the set $\{0,1\}$, and let $a_1,a_2,\cdots ,a_m$$(1\le a_i\le p...$

We give a simple proof that critical values of any Artin $L$-function attached to a representation $\rho$ with character ${\chi }_{\rho }$ are stable under twisting by a totally even character $\chi$, up to the $dim\rho$-th power of the Gauss sum related to $\chi$ and an element in the field generated by the values of ${\chi }_{\rho }$ and $\chi$ over $\mathbb{Q}$. This extends a result of Coates and Lichtenbaum as well as the previous work of Ward.

Let $\chi$ be a nonprincipal Dirichlet character modulo a prime number $p⩾3$ and let ${𝔞}_{\chi }:=\frac{1}{2}(1-\chi (-1))$. Define the mean value $${ℳ}_p(-s,\chi ):=\frac{2}{p-1}\sum \psi (modp)\psi (-1)=-1L(1,\psi )L(-s,\chi \overline{\psi })(\sigma :=\Re s>0).$$ We give an identity for ${ℳ}_p(-s,\chi )$ which, in particular, shows that $${ℳ}_p(-s,\chi )=L(1-s,\chi )+{𝔞}_{\chi }2p^{s}L(1,\chi )\zeta (-s)+o\left(1\right)(p\to \infty )$$ for fixed $0<\sigma <\frac{1}{2}$ and $|t:=\Im s|=o\left(p^{(1-2\sigma )/(3+2\sigma )}\right)$.