Using the Kuznetsov trace formula, we prove a spectral decomposition for the sums of generalized Dirichlet $L$-functions. Among applications are an explicit formula relating norms of prime geodesics to moments of symmetric square $L$-functions and an asymptotic expansion for the average of central values of generalized Dirichlet $L$-functions.
In this paper, we study the Newton polygons for the $L$-functions of $n$-variable generalized Kloosterman sums. Generally, the Newton polygon has a topological lower bound, called the Hodge polygon. In order to determine the Hodge polygon, we explicitly construct a basis of the top dimensional Dwork cohomology. Using Wans decomposition theorem and diagonal local theory, we obtain when the Newton polygon coincides with the Hodge polygon. In particular, we concretely get the slope sequence for $L$-function of $bar{F}(bar{lambda},x):=sum_{i=1}^nx_i^{a_i}+bar{lambda}prod_{i=1}^nx_i^{-1}$.
In this paper, we focus on a family of generalized Kloosterman sums over the torus. With a few changes to Haessig and Sperbers construction, we derive some relative $p$-adic cohomologies corresponding to the $L$-functions. We present explicit forms of bases of top dimensional cohomology spaces, so to obtain a concrete method to compute lower bounds of Newton polygons of the $L$-functions. Using the theory of GKZ system, we derive the Dworks deformation equation for our family. Furthermore, with the help of Dworks dual theory and deformation theory, the strong Frobenius structure of this equation is established. Our work adds some new evidences for Dworks conjecture.
We obtain an asymptotic formula for the smoothly weighted first moment of primitive quadratic Dirichlet L-functions at the central point, with an error term that is square-root of the main term. Our approach uses a recursive technique that feeds the result back into itself, successively improving the error term.
We study the fourth moment of quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions at $s= frac{1}{2}$. We show an asymptotic formula under the generalized Riemann hypothesis, and obtain a precise lower bound unconditionally. The proofs of these results follow closely arguments of Soundararajan and Young [19] and Soundararajan [17].
Let $qge3$ be an integer, $chi$ be a Dirichlet character modulo $q$, and $L(s,chi)$ denote the Dirichlet $L$-functions corresponding to $chi$. In this paper, we show some special function series, and give some new identities for the Dirichlet $L$-functions involving Gauss sums. Specially, we give specific identities for $L(2,chi)$.