The fourth moment of Dirichlet L-functions

Abstract

We compute the fourth moment of Dirichlet L-functions at the central point for prime moduli, with a power savings in the error term.

40 pages. v2: Improved exposition, simplified proofs, and minor errors fixed. To appear in Annals of Mathematics.

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