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Partial Euler Products on the Critical Line

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Keith Conrad
Keith Conrad*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3009, U.S.A. e-mail: kconrad@math.uconn.edu
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The initial version of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture concerned asymptotics for partial Euler products for an elliptic curve $L$-function at $s\,=\,1$. Goldfeld later proved that these asymptotics imply the Riemann hypothesis for the $L$-function and that the constant in the asymptotics has an unexpected factor of $\sqrt{2}$. We extend Goldfeld's theorem to an analysis of partial Euler products for a typical $L$-function along its critical line. The general $\sqrt{2}$ phenomenon is related to second moments, while the asymptotic behavior (over number fields) is proved to be equivalent to a condition that in a precise sense seems much deeper than the Riemann hypothesis. Over function fields, the Euler product asymptotics can sometimes be proved unconditionally.

Keywords

11M4111S40Euler productexplicit formulasecond moment
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , 01 April 2005 , pp. 267 - 297
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2005

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