A sum of three nonzero triangular numbers

Finding all integers which can be written as a sum of three nonzero squares of integers has been studied by a number of authors. This question is solved under the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis (GRH), but still remains unsolved unconditionally. In this paper, we show that out of all integers that are sums of three squares, all but finitely many can be written as [Formula: see text] for some integers [Formula: see text]. Furthermore, we explicitly describe this finite set under the GRH. From this result, we also describe further generalizations for sums of nonzero polygonal numbers. Precisely, we find all integers, under the GRH only when [Formula: see text], which are sums of [Formula: see text] nonzero triangular (generalized pentagonal and generalized octagonal, respectively) numbers for any integer [Formula: see text].

One level density of low-lying zeros of quadratic Hecke L-functions to prime moduli

International audience In this paper, we study the one level density of low-lying zeros of a family of quadratic Hecke L-functions to prime moduli over the Gaussian field under the generalized Riemann hypothesis (GRH) and the ratios conjecture. As a corollary, we deduce that at least 75% of the members of this family do not vanish at the central point under GRH.

On L-functions of modular elliptic curves and certain K3 surfaces

Inspired by Lehmer’s conjecture on the non-vanishing of the Ramanujan $$\tau $$ τ -function, one may ask whether an odd integer $$\alpha $$ α can be equal to $$\tau (n)$$ τ ( n ) or any coefficient of a newform f(z). Balakrishnan, Craig, Ono and Tsai used the theory of Lucas sequences and Diophantine analysis to characterize non-admissible values of newforms of even weight $$k\ge 4$$ k ≥ 4 . We use these methods for weight 2 and 3 newforms and apply our results to L-functions of modular elliptic curves and certain K3 surfaces with Picard number $$\ge 19$$ ≥ 19 . In particular, for the complete list of weight 3 newforms $$f_\lambda (z)=\sum a_\lambda (n)q^n$$ f λ ( z ) = ∑ a λ ( n ) q n that are $$\eta $$ η -products, and for $$N_\lambda $$ N λ the conductor of some elliptic curve $$E_\lambda $$ E λ , we show that if $$|a_\lambda (n)|<100$$ | a λ ( n ) | < 100 is odd with $$n>1$$ n > 1 and $$(n,2N_\lambda )=1$$ ( n , 2 N λ ) = 1 , then $$\begin{aligned} a_\lambda (n) \in&\{-5,9,\pm 11,25, \pm 41, \pm 43, -45,\pm 47,49, \pm 53,55, \pm 59, \pm 61,\\&\pm 67, -69,\pm 71,\pm 73,75, \pm 79,\pm 81, \pm 83, \pm 89,\pm 93 \pm 97, 99\}. \end{aligned}$$ a λ ( n ) ∈ { - 5 , 9 , ± 11 , 25 , ± 41 , ± 43 , - 45 , ± 47 , 49 , ± 53 , 55 , ± 59 , ± 61 , ± 67 , - 69 , ± 71 , ± 73 , 75 , ± 79 , ± 81 , ± 83 , ± 89 , ± 93 ± 97 , 99 } . Assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, we can rule out a few more possibilities leaving $$\begin{aligned} a_\lambda (n) \in \{-5,9,\pm 11,25,-45,49,55,-69,75,\pm 81,\pm 93, 99\}. \end{aligned}$$ a λ ( n ) ∈ { - 5 , 9 , ± 11 , 25 , - 45 , 49 , 55 , - 69 , 75 , ± 81 , ± 93 , 99 } .

The Jensen–Pólya program for various L-functions

Pólya proved in 1927 that the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the hyperbolicity of all of the Jensen polynomials of degree d and shift n for the Riemann Xi-function. Recently, Griffin, Ono, Rolen, and Zagier [M. Griffin, K. Ono, L. Rolen and D. Zagier, Jensen polynomials for the Riemann zeta function and other sequences, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116 2019, 23, 11103–11110] proved that for each degree {d\geq 1} all of the Jensen polynomials for the Riemann Xi-function are hyperbolic except for possibly finitely many n. Here we extend their work by showing that the same statement is true for suitable L-functions. This offers evidence for the generalized Riemann hypothesis.

Uniformly counting primes with a given primitive root and in an arithmetic progression

We study the number of primes with a given primitive root and in an arithmetic progression under the assumption of a suitable form of the generalized Riemann Hypothesis. Previous work of Lenstra, Moree and Stevenhagen has given asymptotics without an explicit error term, we provide an explicit error term by combining their work with the method of Hooley regarding Artin’s primitive root conjecture. We give an application to a Diophantine problem involving primes with a given primitive root.

Variant of the truncated Perron formula and primes in polynomial sets

We show under the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis that for every non-constant integer-valued polynomial [Formula: see text], for every [Formula: see text], and almost every prime [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text], the number of primes from the interval [Formula: see text] that are values of [Formula: see text] modulo [Formula: see text] is the expected one, provided [Formula: see text] is not more than [Formula: see text]. We obtain this via a variant of the classical truncated Perron’s formula for the partial sums of the coefficients of a Dirichlet series.

On the bounded generation of arithmetic SL2

Let K be a number field and S be a finite set of primes of K containing the archimedean valuations. Let 𝒪 be the ring of S-integers in K. Morgan, Rapinchuck, and Sury [A. V. Morgan et al., Algebra Number Theory 12, 1949–1974 (2018)] have proved that if the group of units 𝒪× is infinite, then every matrix in SL2(𝒪) is a product of at most 9 elementary matrices. We prove that under the additional hypothesis that K has at least 1 real embedding or S contains a finite place we can get a product of at most 8 elementary matrices. If we assume a suitable generalized Riemann hypothesis, then every matrix in SL2(𝒪) is the product of at most 5 elementary matrices if K has at least 1 real embedding, the product of at most 6 elementary matrices if S contains a finite place, and the product of at most 7 elementary matrices in general.

Explicit short intervals for primes in arithmetic progressions on GRH

We prove explicit versions of Cramér’s theorem for primes in arithmetic progressions, on the assumption of the generalized Riemann hypothesis.