We find closed formulas for arbitrarily high mixed moments of characteristic polynomials of the Alternative Circular Unitary Ensemble, as well as closed formulas for the averages of ratios of characteristic polynomials in this ensemble. A comparison is made to analogous results for the Circular Unitary Ensemble. Both moments and ratios are studied via symmetric function theory and a general formula of Borodin-Olshanski-Strahov.

In this paper, we obtain a precise formula for the one-level density of L-functions attached to non-Galois cubic Dedekind zeta functions. We find a secondary term which is unique to this context, in the sense that no lower-order term of this shape has appeared in previously studied families. The presence of this new term allows us to deduce an omega result for cubic field counting functions, under the assumption of the Generalised Riemann Hypothesis. We also investigate the associated L-functions Ratios Conjecture and find that it does not predict this new lower-order term. Taking into account the secondary term in Roberts’s conjecture, we refine the Ratios Conjecture to one which captures this new term. Finally, we show that any improvement in the exponent of the error term of the recent Bhargava–Taniguchi–Thorne cubic field counting estimate would imply that the best possible error term in the refined Ratios Conjecture is $O_\varepsilon (X^{-\frac 13+\varepsilon })$ . This is in opposition with all previously studied families in which the expected error in the Ratios Conjecture prediction for the one-level density is $O_\varepsilon (X^{-\frac 12+\varepsilon })$ .

Conditional on the extended Riemann hypothesis, we show that with high probability, the characteristic polynomial of a random symmetric $\{\pm 1\}$ -matrix is irreducible. This addresses a question raised by Eberhard in recent work. The main innovation in our work is establishing sharp estimates regarding the rank distribution of symmetric random $\{\pm 1\}$ -matrices over $\mathbb{F}_p$ for primes $2 < p \leq \exp(O(n^{1/4}))$ . Previously, such estimates were available only for $p = o(n^{1/8})$ . At the heart of our proof is a way to combine multiple inverse Littlewood–Offord-type results to control the contribution to singularity-type events of vectors in $\mathbb{F}_p^{n}$ with anticoncentration at least $1/p + \Omega(1/p^2)$ . Previously, inverse Littlewood–Offord-type results only allowed control over vectors with anticoncentration at least $C/p$ for some large constant $C > 1$ .

In this paper, we study lower-order terms of the one-level density of low-lying zeros of quadratic Hecke L-functions in the Gaussian field. Assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis, our result is valid for even test functions whose Fourier transforms are supported in $(-2, 2)$ . Moreover, we apply the ratios conjecture of L-functions to derive these lower-order terms as well. Up to the first lower-order term, we show that our results are consistent with each other when the Fourier transforms of the test functions are supported in $(-2, 2)$ .

In this paper, we prove a one level density result for the low-lying zeros of quadratic Hecke L-functions of imaginary quadratic number fields of class number 1. As a corollary, we deduce, essentially, that at least $(19-\cot (1/4))/16 = 94.27\ldots \%$ of the L-functions under consideration do not vanish at 1/2.

We give a conjecture for the moments of the Dedekind zeta function of a Galois extension. This is achieved through the hybrid product method of Gonek, Hughes and Keating. The moments of the product over primes are evaluated using a theorem of Montgomery and Vaughan, whilst the moments of the product over zeros are conjectured using a heuristic method involving random matrix theory. The asymptotic formula of the latter is then proved for quadratic extensions in the lowest order case. We are also able to reproduce our moments conjecture in the case of quadratic extensions by using a modified version of the moments recipe of Conrey et al. Generalising our methods, we then provide a conjecture for moments of non-primitive L-functions, which is supported by some calculations based on Selberg’s conjectures.

In this paper we prove some one-level density results for the low-lying zeros of families of quadratic and quartic Hecke $L$-functions of the Gaussian field. As corollaries, we deduce that at least 94.27% and 5%, respectively, of the members of the quadratic family and the quartic family do not vanish at the central point.

Katz and Sarnak predicted that the one level density of the zeros of a family of L-functions would fall into one of five categories. In this paper, we show that the one level density for L-functions attached to cubic Galois number fields falls into the category associated with unitary matrices.

In this series of papers, we explore moments of derivatives of L-functions in function fields using classical analytic techniques such as character sums and approximate functional equation. The present paper is concerned with the study of mean values of derivatives of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions over function fields when the average is taken over monic and irreducible polynomials P in 𝔽q[T]. When the cardinality q of the ground field is fixed and the degree of P gets large, we obtain asymptotic formulas for the first moment of the first and the second derivative of this family of L-functions at the critical point. We also compute the full polynomial expansion in the asymptotic formulas for both mean values.

Let $C$ denote the Fermat curve over $\mathbb{Q}$ of prime exponent $l$ . The Jacobian $\text{Jac(}C\text{)}$ of $C$ splits over $\mathbb{Q}$ as the product of Jacobians $\text{Jac(}{{C}_{k}})$ , $1\,\le \,k\,\le \,\ell \,-\text{2}$ , where ${{C}_{k}}$ are curves obtained as quotients of $C$ by certain subgroups of automorphisms of $C$ . It is well known that $\text{Jac(}{{C}_{k}}\text{)}$ is the power of an absolutely simple abelian variety ${{B}_{k}}$ with complex multiplication. We call degenerate those pairs $(l,\,k)$ for which ${{B}_{k}}$ has degenerate $\text{CM}$ type. For a non-degenerate pair $(l,\,k)$ , we compute the Sato–Tate group of $\text{Jac(}{{C}_{k}}\text{)}$ , prove the generalized Sato–Tate Conjecture for it, and give an explicit method to compute the moments and measures of the involved distributions. Regardless of whether $(l,\,k)$ is degenerate, we also obtain Frobenius equidistribution results for primes of certain residue degrees in the $l$ -th cyclotomic field. Key to our results is a detailed study of the rank of certain generalized Demjanenko matrices.

In this paper, we prove some one level density results for the low-lying zeros of families of L-functions. More specifically, the families under consideration are that of L-functions of holomorphic Hecke eigenforms of level 1 and weight k twisted with quadratic Dirichlet characters and that of cubic and quartic Dirichlet L-functions.