A note on Dedekind zeta values at 1/2

For a number field [Formula: see text], let [Formula: see text] be the Dedekind zeta function associated to [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we study non-vanishing and transcendence of [Formula: see text] as well as its derivative [Formula: see text] at [Formula: see text]. En route, we strengthen a result proved by Ram Murty and Tanabe [On the nature of [Formula: see text] and non-vanishing of [Formula: see text]-series at [Formula: see text], J. Number Theory 161 (2016) 444–456].

A note on values of the Dedekind zeta-function at odd positive integers

For an algebraic number field [Formula: see text], let [Formula: see text] be the associated Dedekind zeta-function. It is conjectured that [Formula: see text] is transcendental for any positive integer [Formula: see text]. The only known case of this conjecture was proved independently by Siegel and Klingen, namely that, when [Formula: see text] is a totally real number field, [Formula: see text] is an algebraic multiple of [Formula: see text] and hence, is transcendental. If [Formula: see text] is not totally real, the question of whether [Formula: see text] is irrational or not remains open. In this paper, we prove that for a fixed integer [Formula: see text], at most one of [Formula: see text] is rational, as [Formula: see text] varies over all imaginary quadratic fields. We also discuss a generalization of this theorem to CM-extensions of number fields.

The (α, β)-ramification invariants of a number field

Let L be a number field. For a given prime p, we define integers α p L $ \alpha_{p}^{L} $ and β p L $ \beta_{p}^{L} $ with some interesting arithmetic properties. For instance, β p L $ \beta_{p}^{L} $ is equal to 1 whenever p does not ramify in L and α p L $ \alpha_{p}^{L} $ is divisible by p whenever p is wildly ramified in L. The aforementioned properties, although interesting, follow easily from definitions; however a more interesting application of these invariants is the fact that they completely characterize the Dedekind zeta function of L. Moreover, if the residue class mod p of α p L $ \alpha_{p}^{L} $ is not zero for all p then such residues determine the genus of the integral trace.

Moments of the Dedekind zeta function and other non-primitive L-functions

We give a conjecture for the moments of the Dedekind zeta function of a Galois extension. This is achieved through the hybrid product method of Gonek, Hughes and Keating. The moments of the product over primes are evaluated using a theorem of Montgomery and Vaughan, whilst the moments of the product over zeros are conjectured using a heuristic method involving random matrix theory. The asymptotic formula of the latter is then proved for quadratic extensions in the lowest order case. We are also able to reproduce our moments conjecture in the case of quadratic extensions by using a modified version of the moments recipe of Conrey et al. Generalising our methods, we then provide a conjecture for moments of non-primitive L-functions, which is supported by some calculations based on Selberg’s conjectures.