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math.NT2025

The relative entropy of primes in arithmetic progressions is really small

Alex Cowan

Fix a modulus . One would expect the number of primes in each invertible residue class mod to be multinomially distributed, i.e. for each to behave li…

math.NT2025

On the mean value of and -functions, with applications to murmurations

Alex Cowan

"Murmurations" are a recently-discovered type of fine structure in sums of Dirichlet coefficients averaged over families of -functions. The root cause of this phenomenon remains…

math.NT2024

Murmurations and ratios conjectures

Alex Cowan

We introduce a new method for studying murmurations, based on random matrix theory. With this method, we exhibit murmurations or similar phenomena: assuming ratios conjectures, for…

math.NT2024

Conductor distributions of elliptic curves

Alex Cowan

We determine the distribution of the conductors of rational elliptic curves when ordered by naive height , in the form of an explicit density function for the ratios .…

math.NT2023★ 1 cited

Murmurations and explicit formulas

Alex Cowan

Unexpected oscillations in values in a family of elliptic curves were observed experimentally by He, Lee, Oliver, and Pozdnyakov. We propose a heuristic explanation for these…

math.NT2023

A twisted additive divisor problem

Alex Cowan

We give asymptotics for shifted convolutions of the form for nonzero complex numbers and nontrivial Dirichlet charac…