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MOMENTS AND HYBRID SUBCONVEXITY FOR SYMMETRIC-SQUARE L-FUNCTIONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2021
Abstract
We establish sharp bounds for the second moment of symmetric-square L-functions attached to Hecke Maass cusp forms $u_j$ with spectral parameter
$t_j$, where the second moment is a sum over
$t_j$ in a short interval. At the central point
$s=1/2$ of the L-function, our interval is smaller than previous known results. More specifically, for
$\left \lvert t_j\right \rvert $ of size T, our interval is of size
$T^{1/5}$, whereas the previous best was
$T^{1/3}$, from work of Lam. A little higher up on the critical line, our second moment yields a subconvexity bound for the symmetric-square L-function. More specifically, we get subconvexity at
$s=1/2+it$ provided
$\left \lvert t_j\right \rvert ^{6/7+\delta }\le \lvert t\rvert \le (2-\delta )\left \lvert t_j\right \rvert $ for any fixed
$\delta>0$. Since
$\lvert t\rvert $ can be taken significantly smaller than
$\left \lvert t_j\right \rvert $, this may be viewed as an approximation to the notorious subconvexity problem for the symmetric-square L-function in the spectral aspect at
$s=1/2$.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , September 2023 , pp. 2029 - 2073
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- © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press
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