A note on the mean value of the zeta and $L$-functions. X

Abstract

The present note reports on an explicit spectral formula for the fourth moment of the Dedekind zeta function $\zeta_{\mathrm{F}}$ of the Gaussian number field $\mathrm{F} = \mathbf{Q}(i)$, and on a new version of the sum formula of Kuznetsov type for $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbf{Z}[i])\backslash \mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbf{C})$. Our explicit formula (Theorem 5, below) for $\zeta_{\mathrm{F}}$ gives rise to a solution to a problem that has been posed on p. 183 of [M3] and, more explicitly, in [M4]. Also, our sum formula (Theorem 4, below) is an answer to a problem raised in [M4] concerning the inversion of a spectral sum formula over the Picard group $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbf{Z}[i])$ acting on the three dimensional hyperbolic space (the $K$-trivial situation). To solve this problem, it was necessary to include the $K$-nontrivial situation into consideration, which is analogous to what has been experienced in the modular case.