Tables of approximate values of the first zeros on
the critical line of some primitive Dirichlet L-series


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Introduction

This page presents the results of my efforts to compute the first zeros, on the critical line, of some Dirichlet L-series. Only some L-series associated with Dirichlet characters [1] were considered. The Dirichlet L-series associated with the simplest character is the well-known zeta function. Riemann, in a path-breaking paper [2], conjectured that the non-trivial zeros of this function have real part equal to 1/2 (the critical line). This constitutes the famous Riemann Hypothesis (RH). The Extended Riemann Hypothesis (ERH) asserts the same for all Dirichlet L-series associated with characters.

Although my program is able to compute zeros of Dirichlet L-series without outside help, I used Michael Rubinstein's L-function calculator [3] to compute an initial approximation of the zeros I wanted, which were then refined (to 20 digits after the decimal point) using the PARI/GP calculator.

The character associated to the zeros in each (compressed) file given below is fully described in the header of that file. Only zeros with positive imaginary part are given.

Tables with approximate values of the first zeros of some Dirichlet L-series, last update made on August 7, 2007

Primitive characters:

Non-primitive characters:

References

[1] H. Davenport, Multiplicative Number Theory, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 74, Third Edition, 2000, Springer.
[2] H. M. Edwards, Riemann's zeta function, 2001, Dover Publications, Inc. (first published in 1974 by Academic Press, Inc.).
[3] M. Rubinstein, L-function calculator.

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