Joint moments of characteristic polynomials of random unitary matrices

The moments of Hardy’s function have been of interest to number theorists since the early 20th century, and to random matrix theorists especially since the seminal work of Keating and Snaith, who were able to conjecture the leading order behaviour of all moments. Studying joint moments offers a unified approach to both moments and derivative moments. In his 2006 thesis, Hughes made a version of the Keating-Snaith conjecture for joint moments of Hardy’s function. Since then, people have been calculating the joint moments on the random matrix side. I will outline some recent progress in these calculations. This is joint work with Theo Assiotis, Benjamin Bedert, and Mustafa Alper Gunes.