Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

We explore the modular properties of generating functions for Hurwitz class numbers endowed with level structure. Our work is based on an inspection of the weight $\frac{1}{2}$ Maass--Eisenstein series of level $4N$ at its spectral point $s=\frac{3}{4}$, extending the work of Duke, Imamo\={g}lu and T\'{o}th in the level $4$ setting. We construct a higher level analogue of Zagier's Eisenstein series and a preimage under the $\xi_{\frac{1}{2}}$-operator.  We deduce a linear relation between the mock modular generating functions of the level $1$ and level $N$ Hurwitz class numbers, giving rise to a holomorphic modular form of weight $\frac{3}{2}$ and level $4N$ for $N > 1$ odd and square-free. Furthermore, we connect the aforementioned results to a regularized Siegel theta lift as well as a regularized Kudla--Millson theta lift for odd prime levels, which builds on earlier work by Bruinier, Funke and Imamo\={g}lu. I wil lbe discussing joint work with Andreas Mono and Ngoc Trinh Le.

Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis, Montgomery established results concerning the pair correlation of zeros of the Riemann zeta function. Rudnick and Sarnak extended these results for all level correlations of automorphic $L$-functions. We discover surfaces associated with the zeros of automorphic $L$-functions. In the case of pair correlation, the surface displays Gaussian behavior. For triple correlation, these structures exhibit characteristics of the Laplace and Chi-squared distributions, revealing an unexpected phase transition. This is joint work with Debmalya Basakand Alexandru Zaharescu.

The Ceresa cycle and the Gross—Kudla—Schoen modified diagonal cycle are algebraic $1$-cycles associated to a smooth algebraic curve. They are algebraically trivial for a hyperelliptic curve and non-trivial for a very general complex curve of genus $>2$. Given an algebraic curve, it is an interesting question to study whether the Ceresa and GKS cycles associated to it are rationally or algebraically trivial. In this talk, I will discuss some methods and tools to study this problem

 I will discuss recent work with Chantal David, Alexander Dunn, and Joshua Stucky, in which we prove that a positive proportion of Hecke L-functions associated to the cubic residue symbol modulo squarefree Eisenstein integers do not vanish at the central point. Our principal new contribution is the asymptotic evaluation of the mollified second moment with power saving error term. No such asymptotic formula was previously known for a cubic family (even over function fields). Our new approach makes crucial use of Patterson's evaluation of the Fourier coefficients of the cubic metaplectic theta function, Heath-Brown's cubic large sieve, and a Lindelöf-on-average upper bound for the second moment of cubic Dirichlet series that we establish. The significance of our result is that the (unitary) family considered does not satisfy a perfectly orthogonal large sieve bound. This is quite unlike other families of Dirichlet L-functions for which unconditional results are known (namely the symplectic family of quadratic characters and the unitary family of all Dirichlet characters modulo q). Consequently, our proof has fundamentally different features from the corresponding works of Soundararajan and of Iwaniec and Sarnak.