Value-distribution of quartic Hecke $L$-functions

Abstract

Set $K=\mathbb{Q}(i)$ and suppose that $c\in \mathbb{Z}[i]$ is a square-free algebraic integer with $c\equiv 1 \imod{\langle16\rangle}$. Let $L(s,\chi_{c})$ denote the Hecke $L$-function associated with the quartic residue character modulo $c$. For $\sigma>1/2$, we prove an asymptotic distribution function $F_{\sigma}$ for the values of the logarithm of \begin{equation*} L_c(s)= L(s,\chi_c)L(s,\overline{\chi}_{c}), \end{equation*} as $c$ varies. Moreover, the characteristic function of $F_{\sigma}$ is expressed explicitly as a product over the prime ideals of $\mathbb{Z}[i]$.