Chowla–Chowla nonvanishing conjecture for periodic functions

Let pp be a prime and let ff be a rational-valued periodic function with period pp. Define its associated LL-function, for [?]s[?]s with [?]Re(s)>1[?]\operatorname{Re}(s)>1, by

L(s,f)=n=1f(n)ns.L(s,f)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{f(n)}{n^s}.

Chowla–Chowla conjecture. L(2,f)0L(2,f)\ne0, except when

f(1)=f(2)==f(p1)=f(p)1p2.f(1)=f(2)=\cdots=f(p-1)=\frac{f(p)}{1-p^2}.

This conjecture concerns nonvanishing of special values of LL-functions attached to arbitrary periodic arithmetic functions and was formulated by P. Chowla and S. Chowla. Its status is not specified in the source.

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Sanoli Gun, Neelam Kandhil and Patrice Philippon, “On linear independence of Dirichlet L values”, arXiv:2212.00366 (2022).

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