Root numbers for twisted Fermat quotient curves

Abstract

Let $\ell$ be an odd prime, $N \geq 1$ be an integer, and $\delta \geq 1$ be a $\ell^N$-th power free integer such that ${\rm ord}_{\ell}(\delta) = 0$ or $\ell \nmid {\rm ord}_{\ell}(\delta)$. In this paper, we give an explicit formula for the root number of the Hecke character associated with a certain quotient curve of the twisted Fermat curve $X^{\ell^N} + Y^{\ell^N} = \delta$. This result gives a generalization of Stoll (2002) and Shu (2021).