On a conjecture of Soundararajan

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12524MaRDI QIDQ6133250zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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