Chebyshev's bias for modular forms

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Abstract

We study Chebyshev's bias for the signs of Fourier coefficients of cuspidal newforms on Γ0(N)Γ_0(N). Our main result shows that the bias towards either sign is completely determined by the order of vanishing of the LL-function L(s,f)L(s, f) at the central point of the critical strip. We then give several examples of modular forms where we explicitly compute the order of vanishing of L(s,f)L(s, f) at the central point and as a by-product, verify the super-positivity property, in the sense of Yun--Zhang (2017), for these examples.

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