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The mean square of the Dedekind zeta function in quadratic number fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Wolfgang Müller
Wolfgang Müller
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Institut für Statistik, Technische Universität Graz, Lessingstraβe 27, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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Let K be a quadratic number field with discriminant D. The aim of this paper is to study the mean square of the Dedekind zeta function ζK on the critical line, i.e.

It was proved by Chandrasekharan and Narasimhan[1] that (1) is at most of order O(T(log T)2). As they noted at the end of their paper, it ‘would seem likely’ that (1) behaves asymptotically like a2T(log T)2, with some constant a2 depending on K. Applying a general mean value theorem for Dirichlet polynomials, one can actually prove

This may be done in just the same way as this general mean value theorem can be used to prove Ingham's classical result on the fourth power moment of the Riemann zeta function (cf. [3], chapter 5). In 1979 Heath-Brown [2] improved substantially on Ingham's result. Adapting his method to the above situation a much better result than (2) can be obtained. The following Theorem deals with a slightly more general situation. Note that ζK(s) = ζ(s)L(s, XD) where XD is a real primitive Dirichlet character modulo |D|. There is no additional difficulty in allowing x to be complex.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 106 , Issue 3 , November 1989 , pp. 403 - 417
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1989

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