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Since the time of Dirichlet and Riemann, the analytic properties of L-functions have been used to establish theorems of a purely arithmetic nature. The distribution of prime numbers in arithmetic progressions is intimately connected with non-vanishing properties of various L-functions.
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Murty, M.R., Murty, V.K. (1997). Introduction. In: Non-vanishing of L-Functions and Applications. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0274-1_1
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