Chebyshev's bias for analytic L-functions

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the generalizations of the concept of Chebyshev's bias from two perspectives. First we give a general framework for the study of prime number races and Chebyshev's bias attached to general $L$-functions satisfying natural analytic hypotheses. This extends the cases previously considered by several authors and involving, among others, Dirichlet $L$-functions and Hasse--Weil $L$-functions of elliptic curves over $\mathbf{Q}$. This also apply to new Chebyshev's bias phenomena that were beyond the reach of the previously known cases. In addition we weaken the required hypotheses such as GRH or linear independence properties of zeros of $L$-functions. In particular we establish the existence of the logarithmic density of the set $\{x\ge 2:{\sum }_{p\le x}{\lambda }_f(p)\ge 0\}$ for coefficients $({\lambda }_f(p))$ of general $L$-functions conditionally on a much weaker hypothesis than was previously known.

8 figures, exposition improved including more details on Kronecker--Weyl Equidistribution Theorem

References in corpus (1)

• Chebyshev's conjecture and the prime number race

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