Variance of cusp forms in the level aspect

Seminar: 
Number Theory
Event time: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 11:30am to Monday, March 3, 2014 - 7:00pm
Location: 
LOM 205
Speaker: 
Peng Zhao
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale
Event description: 

We discuss how to evaluate the variance for the holomorphic newforms with fixed weight and increasing squarefree levels. In the resulting variance, we obtain the central values of corresponding L-functions. This talk is based on an ongoing project jointly with Sheng-Chi Liu.