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Canadian Number Theory Association X Meeting (CNTA X)
July 13-18, 2008
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Organizers
Kevin Hare (Waterloo, Wentang Kuo (Waterloo), Yu-Ru Liu (Waterloo), David McKinnon (Waterloo), Michael Rubinstein (Waterloo), Cam Stewart (Waterloo)

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Non-vanishing of the symmetric square L-function at the central point
by
Rizwan Khan
University of California, Los Angeles

We show that for a positive proportion of level 1 Hecke eigenforms of weight bounded by a large enough constant, the associated symmetric square L-function does not vanish at the central real point of its critical strip. When counting `harmonically' we optimize this proportion and observe that it agrees with proportions of non-vanishing found by other authors for other symplectic families of L-functions. Our harmonic proportion is just over 70%.

Date received: January 24, 2008


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