Chebyshev's bias for modular forms

We study Chebyshev's bias for the signs of Fourier coefficients of cuspidal newforms on $Γ_0(N)$. Our main result shows that the bias towards either sign is completely determined by the order of vanishing of the $L$-function $L(s, f)$ at the central point of the critical strip. We then give several examples of modular forms where we explicitly compute the order of vanishing of $L(s, f)$ at the central point and as a by-product, verify the super-positivity property, in the sense of Yun--Zhang (2017), for these examples.

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2025-09-04
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Chebyshev's bias for modular forms

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Chebyshev's bias for modular forms

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Abstract

We study Chebyshev's bias for the signs of Fourier coefficients of cuspidal newforms on $Γ_0(N)$. Our main result shows that the bias towards either sign is completely determined by the order of vanishing of the $L$-function $L(s, f)$ at the central point of the critical strip. We then give several examples of modular forms where we explicitly compute the order of vanishing of $L(s, f)$ at the central point and as a by-product, verify the super-positivity property, in the sense of Yun--Zhang (2017), for these examples.

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