The Mellin transform of powers of the zeta-function
It is shown that the multiplicative independence of Dedekind zeta functions of abelian fields is equivalent to their functional independence. We also give all the possible multiplicative dependence relations for any set of Dedekind zeta functions of abelian fields.
Previous work by Rubinstein and Gao computed the n-level densities for families of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions for test functions f̂₁, ..., f̂ₙ supported in , and showed agreement with random matrix theory predictions in this range for n ≤ 3 but only in a restricted range for larger n. We extend these results and show agreement for n ≤ 7, and reduce higher n to a Fourier transform identity. The proof involves adopting a new combinatorial perspective to convert all terms to a canonical form,...
Given a smooth subscheme of a projective space over a finite field, we compute the probability that its intersection with a fixed number of hypersurface sections of large degree is smooth of the expected dimension. This generalizes the case of a single hypersurface, due to Poonen. We use this result to give a probabilistic model for the number of rational points of such a complete intersection. A somewhat surprising corollary is that the number of rational points on a random smooth intersection...
We study the second moment of the central values of quadratic twists of a modular -function. Unconditionally, we obtain a lower bound which matches the conjectured asymptotic formula, while on GRH we prove the asymptotic formula itself.