Lehmer's conjecture for the Ramanujan tau coefficients

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Let q=e2πizq=e^{2\pi i z}, and let

Δk(z)=∑n=1∞τk(n)qn∈Sknew⁡(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.

References

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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