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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

11:00 am in 241 Altgeld Hall,Tuesday, May 1, 2018

#### Average non-vanishing of Dirichlet L-functions at the central point

###### Kyle Pratt (Illinois Math)

Abstract: One expects that an L-function vanishes at the central point either for either deep arithmetic reasons, or for trivial reasons. The central values of Dirichlet L-functions have no arithmetic content, and are also not forced to vanish by the functional equation. One is then led to believe that these central values never vanish, which is a conjecture going back in one form or other to Chowla. The Generalized Riemann Hypothesis implies that almost half of these central values are nonzero. In this talk I will discuss my recent work on central values of Dirichlet L-functions. The main theorem, an unconditional result, is beyond the reach of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis.