Number Theory Seminar

Thursday, October 5, 2017 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)
Lucile Devin, University of Ottawa
"Generalizations of Chebyshev's bias"
Following ideas of Rubinstein, Sarnak and Fiorilli, we give a general framework for the study of prime number races and Chebyshev's bias attached to general $L$-functions $L(s) = \sum_{n\geq 1}\lambda_{f}(n)n^{-s}$ satisfying natural analytic hypotheses. We put the emphasis on weakening 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 $\lbrace x\geq 2 : \sum_{p\leq x} \lambda_{f}(p) \geq 0 \rbrace$ conditionally on a much weaker hypothesis than was previous known. We include applications to new Chebyshev's bias phenomena that were beyond the reach of the previously known cases.
MC 5501