Lehmer's conjecture for the Ramanujan tau coefficients

Let q=e2πizq=e^{2\pi i z}, and let

Δk(z)=n=1τk(n)qnSknew(Γ0(1))\Delta_k(z)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\tau_k(n)q^n\in S_k^{\operatorname{new}}(\Gamma_0(1))

be a newform, where k{12,16,18,20,22,26}k\in\{12,16,18,20,22,26\}. Lehmer's conjecture. For every such kk and every positive integer nn,

τk(n)0.\tau_k(n)\neq0.

For k=12k=12, this is Lehmer's question about the nonvanishing of the Ramanujan tau function, and the source states that it remains open, as do analogous questions for the other listed newforms.

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Primary source

Jeremy Rouse and Jesse Thorner, “The Explicit Sato-Tate Conjecture and Densities Pertaining to Lehmer-Type Questions”, arXiv:1305.5283 (2016).

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