Nonvanishing of Dirichlet \(L\)-functions. II (Q2069641)

The content of this paper covers Dirichlet \(L\)-functions, Dirichlet characters, nonvanishing \(L\)-functions, mollified first and second moments, and Kloosterman sums. There are many books and papers on the nonvanishing problem of Dirichlet \(L\)-functions, which have a long history. The authors show that for at least \(\frac{5}{13}\) of the primitive Dirichlet characters \(\chi\) of large prime modulus, the central value \(L(\frac{1}{2},\chi)\) does not vanish, improving on the previous best known result of \(\frac{3}{8}\). The authors provide many evaluations on their results.