Dirichlet twists of $\operatorname{GL}_n$-automorphic $L$-functions and hyper-Kloosterman Dirichlet series

Abstract

We calculate mean values of $\operatorname{GL}_n$-automorphic $L$-functions twisted by primitive even Dirichlet characters of prime-power conductor, at arbitrary points within the critical strip, by derivation of special Voronoi summation formulae. Our calculation is novel in that the twisted sum can be expressed in terms of the average itself, and also that it sees the derivation of various new summation formulae in the setting of prime-power modulus. One consequence, as we explain, is to show the analytic continuation and additive summation formulae for hyper-Kloosterman Dirichlet series associated to $\operatorname{GL}_n$-automorphic $L$-functions.