Non-vanishing of central values of L-functions with angular restrictions

Abstract

We study the angular restrictions for the second moment of toroidal families of $L$-functions using the general theory of trace functions. With the mollification technique we deduce non-vanishing of a positive proportion. Our two main ingredients are classification results of Katz to determine the sheaves at play and a recent result of Fouvry, Kowalski, Michel and Sawin to bound bilinear sums of their trace functions.