Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh : The Distribution of the Primes and Moments of Products of Automorphic $L$-functions (Jan 21, 2015 1:25 PM)

The prime numbers are the multiplicative building blocks of the integers, and much thought has been given towards understanding their behavior. In this talk, we will examine prime numbers from two points of view. We will first consider questions on the distribution of the primes. In particular, we will illustrate how the breakthrough work of Maynard and Tao on bounded gaps between primes settles an old problem of Erdos and Turan. Secondly, we will explore the relationship between prime numbers and zeros of the Riemann zeta-function, as a way to motivate the study of the moments of the Riemann zeta function and more general L-functions. In particular, we consider arbitrary products of L-functions attached to irreducible cuspidal automorphic representations of GL(m) over the rationals. The Langlands program suggests essentially all L-functions are of this form. Assuming some standard conjectures, I will discuss how to estimate two types of moments: the continuous moment of an arbitrary product of primitive automorphic L-functions and the discrete moment (taken over fundamental discriminants) of an arbitrary product of primitive automorphic L-functions twisted by quadratic Dirichlet characters.

• Category: Number Theory
• Duration: 01:34:44
• Date:  January 21, 2015 at 1:25 PM
• Views: 131
• Tags:   seminar, Number Theory Seminar