{ "id": "0803.1870", "version": "v3", "published": "2008-03-12T23:05:58.000Z", "updated": "2009-02-17T00:45:06.000Z", "title": "Non-vanishing of the symmetric square $L$-function at the central point", "authors": [ "Rizwanur Khan" ], "comment": "29 pages", "doi": "10.1112/plms/pdp048", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "Using the mollifier method, we show that for a positive proportion of holomorphic Hecke eigenforms of level one and weight bounded by a large enough constant, the associated symmetric square $L$-function does not vanish at the central point of its critical strip. We note that our proportion is the same as that found by other authors for other families of $L$-functions also having symplectic symmetry type.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2009-02-17T00:45:06.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11M99" ], "keywords": [ "central point", "holomorphic hecke eigenforms", "symplectic symmetry type", "mollifier method", "non-vanishing" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 29, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008arXiv0803.1870K" } } }