The variance of the number of prime polynomials in short intervals and in residue classes (Q2878686)

The authors resolve function field analogs of conjectures on the variance of the number of prime numbers: (1) in short intervals, and (2) in arithmetic sequences. A careful analysis brings the proof of these analogs to rest upon results of \textit{N. M. Katz} [Convolution and equidistribution. Sato-Tate theorems for finite-field Mellin transforms. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2012; Zbl 1261.11084)] for the equidistribution (as the field order \(q \to \infty\)) of the unitarized Frobenius matrices of the respectively appropriate type of Dirichlet character.