Real roots of real dirichlet L-series

Real zeros of real odd Dirichlet L-functions

Let χ be a real odd Dirichlet character of modulus d, and let L(s, χ) be the associated Dirichlet L-function. As a consequence of the work of Low and Purdy, it is known that if d ≤ 800 000 and d 6= 115 147, 357 819, 636 184, then L(s, χ) has no positive real zeros. By a simple extension of their ideas and the advantage of thirty years of advances in computational power, we are able to prove tha...

Real zeros of quadratic Dirichlet L - functions

A small part of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis asserts that L-functions do not have zeros on the line segment ( 2 , 1]. The question of vanishing at s = 2 often has deep arithmetical significance, and has been investigated extensively. A persuasive view is that L-functions vanish at 2 either for trivial reasons (the sign of the functional equation being negative), or for deep arithmetical r...

Quadratic Dirichlet L-Series

Let D = 1 or D be a fundamental discriminant [1]. The Kronecker-Jacobi-Legendre symbol (D/n) is a completely multiplicative function on the positive integers: µ D n ¶ = ⎧ ⎪ ⎨

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Computing real roots of real polynomials

Computing the roots of a univariate polynomial is a fundamental and long-studied problem of computational algebra with applications in mathematics, engineering, computer science, and the natural sciences. For isolating as well as for approximating all complex roots, the best algorithm known is based on an almost optimal method for approximate polynomial factorization, introduced by Pan in 2002....