The fourth moment of Dirichlet \(L\)-functions along a coset and the Weyl bound (Q6177377)

Let \(\chi\) be a primitive Dirichlet character modulo \(q\). In this paper under review, the authors continue their previous work [Ann. Math. (2) 192, No. 2, 437--486 (2020; Zbl 1460.11111)] on the Weyl bound for Dirichlet \(L\)-functions of cube-free conductor. More precisely, they remove the cube-free hypothesis and establish the following Weyl bound without any restrictions on the conductor of \(\chi\) and for any \(\epsilon>0\) \[L\left(1/2+it,\chi\right)\ \ll_\varepsilon\ (q(1+|t|))^{\frac16+\varepsilon}\ q^{\frac16+\varepsilon}.\] The proof of the above estimate is derived from a Lindelöf-on-average upper bound for the fourth moment of Dirichlet \(L\)-functions of conductor \(q\) along a coset of the subgroup of characters modulo \(d\) when \(q^\ast \mid d\), where \(q^\ast\) is the least positive integer such that \(q^2 \mid ( q^\ast )^3\).