Twisted moments of characteristic polynomials of random matrices in the unitary group

Siegfred Baluyot; Brian Conrey

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arXiv · 2503.21682

Twisted moments of characteristic polynomials of random matrices in the unitary group

Siegfred Baluyot·Brian Conrey

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Recently, Keating and the second author of this paper devised a heuristic for predicting asymptotic formulas for moments of the Riemann zeta-function $ζ(s)$. Their approach indicates how lower twisted moments of $ζ(s)$ may be used to evaluate higher moments. In this paper, we present a rigorous random matrix theory analogue of their heuristic. To do this, we develop a notion of "twisted moment" of characteristic polynomials of matrices in the unitary group $U(N)$, and we prove several identities involving Schur polynomials. Our results may be viewed as a proof of concept of the heuristic for $ζ(s)$.

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Siegfred Baluyot, Brian Conrey. 2025-03-27. Twisted moments of characteristic polynomials of random matrices in the unitary group. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21682

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