Gonek's negative moment conjecture for the Riemann zeta-function

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Let k>0k>0 be fixed, and let TT tend to infinity with [?][?]—the integrals below are taken along the line [?][?]. Gonek's conjecture. Uniformly for 1≤δ≤log⁡T1\leq\delta\leq\log T,

1T∫0T∣ζ(12+δlog⁡T+it)∣−2k dt≍(log⁡Tδ)k2,\frac{1}{T}\int_0^T\left|\zeta\left(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{\delta}{\log T}+it\right)\right|^{-2k}\,dt\asymp\left(\frac{\log T}{\delta}\right)^{k^2},

while uniformly for 0<δ≤10<\delta\leq 1,

1T∫0T∣ζ(12+δlog⁡T+it)∣−2k dt≍{(log⁡T)k2k<12,(log⁡eδ)(log⁡T)k2k=12,delta1−2k(log⁡T)k2k>12.\frac{1}{T}\int_0^T\left|\zeta\left(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{\delta}{\log T}+it\right)\right|^{-2k}\,dt\asymp\begin{cases}(\log T)^{k^2}&k<\frac12,\\(\log\frac{e}{\delta})(\log T)^{k^2}&k=\frac12,\\delta^{1-2k}(\log T)^{k^2}&k>\frac12.\end{cases}

This conjecture predicts the transition in the negative moments of the Riemann zeta-function as the shift approaches the critical line. It was proposed by Gonek; the supplied source does not state whether it has been proved or disproved.

References

Primary source

Iu-Iong Ng and Yuichiro Toma, “Mean square of inverses of Dirichlet L-functions involving conductors”, arXiv:2501.11316 (2025).

Additional references

7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2310.10119, arXiv:2302.07226, arXiv:2111.10477, arXiv:2109.10396, arXiv:1603.02952, arXiv:1108.1524.

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