High pseudomoments of the Riemann zeta function

Abstract

The pseudomoments of the Riemann zeta function, denoted $\mathcal{M}_k(N)$, are defined as the $2k$th integral moments of the $N$th partial sum of $\zeta(s)$ on the critical line. We improve the upper and lower bounds for the constants in the estimate $\mathcal{M}_k(N) \asymp_k (\log{N})^{k^2}$ as $N\to\infty$ for fixed $k\geq1$, thereby determining the two first terms of the asymptotic expansion. We also investigate uniform ranges of $k$ where this improved estimate holds and when $\mathcal{M}_k(N)$ may be lower bounded by the $2k$th power of the $L^\infty$ norm of the $N$th partial sum of $\zeta(s)$ on the critical line.