An elementary bound on Siegel zeroes (Q2307465)

Suppose that \(\chi(n)\) is real, non-principal Dirichlet character to the modulo \(q\), and \(L(s,\chi)\), \(s=\sigma+it\), is the corresponding Dirichlet \(L\)-function. The paper is devoted to the study of so called Siegel zeroes, i.e., the zeroes having only real part larger than \(1-(A \log \max\{q,q|t|\})^{-1}\) for certain \(A\). The main result is an elementary bound for such zeroes. It is shown that \[ \min (\beta_1,\beta_2)\leq 1-\frac{0.933}{\log q} \] for \(q \geq 3\), and real zeroes \(\beta_1\) and \(\beta_2\) of the function \(L(s,\chi)\). In this paper, some computational results for finite ranges of \(q\) are given too. Also, some possible improvements are discussed.