Joint moments of derivatives of characteristic polynomials (Q1005853)

The author investigates in this paper the joint moments of the \(2k\)-th power of the characteristic polynomial of random unitary matrices with the \(2h\)-th power of the derivative of this same polynomial. He is able to prove there that, for a fixed \(h\), the moments are given by rational functions of \(k\), up to a well-known factor, which already arises when \(h = 0\). The author manages to fully describe the denominator in those rational functions (what had already been done by Hughes experimentally [\textit{C. P. Hughes}, On the characteristic polynomial of a random unitary matrix and the Riemann zeta-function, PhD thesis, University of Bristol, (2001)]. He defines the numerators through various formulas, mostly sums over partitions. He then uses this result to formulate conjectures on joint moments of the zeta function and its derivatives, and also addresses the same questions for the Hardy function, by using what he terms as a ``real'' version of characteristic polynomials. The methods in the paper are claimed by the author to be, in principle, easily applicable to other similar problems, as for instance with higher derivatives of characteristic polynomials.