On a conjecture of Soundararajan

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12524zbMATH Open1523.11166arXiv2009.06800WikidataQ113788599 ScholiaQ113788599MaRDI QIDQ6133250FDOQ6133250

Authors: William D. Banks, Igor E. Shparlinski 

Publication date: 18 August 2023

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Building on recent work of A. Harper (2012), and using various results of M. C. Chang (2014) and H. Iwaniec (1974) on the zero-free regions of $L$-functions $L(s,chi)$ for characters $chi$ with a smooth modulus $q$, we establish a conjecture of K. Soundararajan (2008) on the distribution of smooth numbers over reduced residue classes for such moduli $q$. A crucial ingredient in our argument is that, for such $q$, there is at most one "problem character" for which $L(s,chi)$ has a smaller zero-free region. Similarly, using the "Deuring-Heilbronn" phenomenon on the repelling nature of zeros of $L$-functions close to one, we also show that Soundararajan's conjecture holds for a family of moduli having Siegel zeros.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06800

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zbMATH Keywords

zero-free regionsSiegel zeros

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real zeros of (L(s, chi)); results on (L(1, chi)) (11M20) Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25) Distribution of integers in special residue classes (11N69)

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