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Mollification and non-vanishing of automorphic L-functions On GL(3)

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We prove a non-vanishing result for central values of L-functions on GL(3), by using the mollification method and the Kuznetsov trace formula.

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Correspondence to Zhao Xu.

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The first author is supported in part by NSFC [11531008, 11601272] and CSC.

The third author is supported by NSFC [11501327], CSC, and in part by IRT16R43 from the Ministry of Education of China.

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Huang, B., Liu, S. & Xu, Z. Mollification and non-vanishing of automorphic L-functions On GL(3). Isr. J. Math. 227, 597–622 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-018-1749-2

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