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Riemann hypothesis for genus 2 curve L-functions

Prove the Riemann hypothesis for the L-function L(C,s) associated to a genus 2 curve C over Q, establishing that its nontrivial zeros lie on the critical line.

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Background

The Riemann hypothesis (in its generalized form for automorphic and motivic L-functions) is one of the central open problems in number theory. For L-functions arising from genus 2 curves, it predicts the location of zeros.

The paper emphasizes that L(C,s) sits among several open conjectures, including the Riemann hypothesis, and presents algorithms that enable efficient computation of local L-factors L_p(T), which supports empirical investigation of such analytic properties.

References

The $L$-function $L(C,s)$ is the subject of many open conjectures in arithmetic geometry, including the paramodular conjecture, and generalizations of the Sato-Tate conjecture, the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer, and the Riemann hypothesis.

Lifting $L$-polynomials of genus 2 curves (2508.11028 - Shi, 14 Aug 2025) in Section 1 (Introduction)