The twisted second moment of \(L\)-functions associated to Hecke-Maass forms (Q6493772)

In this paper under review, the authors establish an asymptotic formula for the twisted second moment of \(L\)-functions associated to Hecke-Maass forms \(L(s,u_j)\) at \(s = \frac{1}{2} + \sigma + i\tau\) with \(\sigma > 0\) and \(\lbrace uj\rbrace\) is an orthonormal basis of even Hecke-Maass cusp forms for \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})\) with Laplace eigenvalues \(\frac{1}{4}+t_j^2\). The proof uses the standard method of approximate functional equation and Kuznetsov trace formula. This result can be used to deduce a zero-density result in the spectral aspect. For instance, it is shown that for \(\frac{2}{\log T}<\sigma<\frac{1}{2} \) and some sufficiently small \(\delta\), \(\theta > 0\), we have NEWLINE\[NEWLINEN(\sigma, H)\ll HT^{-\theta \sigma}\log T,NEWLINE\]NEWLINEuniformly in \(\frac{3}{\log T}<H<T^\delta\).