Mean values of L-functions in two different worlds

par Prof. Julio ANDRADE (ICERM – Brown University & IHÉS)

mardi 12 nov. 2013, 15:30 → 16:00 Europe/Paris

Amphitéâtre Léon Motchane (IHES)

In this talk I will discuss some of the ideas behind the difficult problem of computing the mean values of L-functions on the critical line. After a basic and brief discussion I will consider the same problem for function fields over a finite field, and in this case something `deeper' can be said.