Non-vanishing for cubic Hecke LL-functions

This paper proves unconditionally that a positive proportion of cubic Hecke LL-functions over the Eisenstein field do not vanish at the central point by establishing a new asymptotic formula for the mollified second moment, a result that overcomes the lack of a perfectly orthogonal large sieve bound in this unitary family through novel applications of Patterson's theta function, Heath-Brown's sieve, and a new Lindelöf-on-average bound.

Chantal David, Alexandre de Faveri, Alexander Dunn + 1 more2026-03-04🔢 math

The dual complex of M1,n(Pr,d)\mathcal{M}_{1,n}(\mathbb{P}^r,d) via the geometry of the Vakil--Zinger moduli space

This paper explicitly determines the dual boundary complexes of normal crossings compactifications for the moduli spaces of maps Mg,n(Pr,d)\mathcal{M}_{g,n}(\mathbb{P}^r,d) with g=0g=0 and g=1g=1, identifying them as moduli spaces of decorated metric graphs and proving their contractibility under specific conditions by analyzing the boundary strata of the Vakil--Zinger desingularization.

Siddarth Kannan, Terry Dekun Song2026-03-04🔢 math

The dynamics of a function family over quadratic extensions of finite fields

This paper provides a complete description of the functional graph of the function f(X)=(cXq+aX)(XqX)n1f(X)=(cX^q+aX)(X^{q}-X)^{n-1} over the finite field Fq2\mathbb{F}_{q^2} by determining its cycle lengths, counting cycles, and classifying the attached tree structures in terms of arithmetic invariants of Fq\mathbb{F}_q.

Fabio E. Brochero Martínez, Hugo R. Teixeira2026-03-04🔢 math