Universality for \(L\)-functions in the Selberg class (Q619336)

The authors extend the \textit{S. M. Voronin} universality theorem for the Riemann zeta-function [Math. USSR, Izv. 9, 443--453 (1975); translation from Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Mat. 39, 475--486 (1975; Zbl 0315.10037)] for \(L\)-functions from the Selberg class \(\mathcal S\) introduced in [\textit{A. Selberg}, Proceedings of the Amalfi conference on analytic number theory, held at Maiori, Amalfi, Italy, 1989. Salerno: Universitá di Salerno, 367--385 (1992; Zbl 0787.11037)]. Let \[ {\mathcal L}(s)=\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty}{a(n)\over n^s}, \quad s=\sigma+it, \] be an \(L\)-function of degree \(d_{\mathcal L}\) in the class \({\mathcal S}\), \[ \sigma_{\mathcal L}=\max \left\{{1\over 2}, 1-{1\over d_{\mathcal L}}\right\}, \] and \[ \lim\limits_{x\to\infty}{1\over \pi(x)}\sum_{p\leq x}\left|a(p)\right|^2=\kappa>0, \eqno(*) \] where \(p\) denotes a prime number, and \(\pi(x)\) is the number of primes not exceeding \(x\). Then the authors prove that if \(K\) is a compact subset of the strip \(\left\{s\in \mathbb{C}:\sigma_{\mathcal L}<\sigma<1\right\}\) with connected complement, and \(g(s)\) is a non-vanishing continuous function on \(K\) which is analytic in the interior of \(K\), then, for every \(\varepsilon>0\), \[ \liminf\limits_{T\to\infty}{1\over T}\text{meas} \left\{\tau\in[0, T]:\max\limits_{s\in K}\left |{\mathcal L}(s+i\tau)-g(s)\right|<\varepsilon\right\}>0. \] Earlier, the above universality theorem was obtained by the second author [Value distribution of \(L\)-functions. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1877. Berlin: Springer (2007; Zbl 1130.11044)] with the additional condition that the function \({\mathcal L}(s)\) has a polynomial Euler product satisfying the Ramanujan hypothesis. In the present paper, the latter condition is replaced by the more convenient relation (*).