On the density function for the value-distribution of automorphic $L$-functions

Abstract

The Bohr-Jessen limit theorem is a probabilistic limit theorem on the value-distribution of the Riemann zeta-function in the critical strip. Moreover their limit measure can be written as an integral involving a certaindensity function. The existence of the limit measure is now known for a quite general class of zeta-functions, but the integral expression has been proved only for some special cases (such as Dedekind zeta-functions). In this paper we give an alternative proof of the existence of the limit measure for a general setting, and then prove the integral expression, with an explicitly constructed density function, for the case of automorphic L-functions attached to primitive forms with respect to congruence subgroups Gamma_0(N).