NON-VANISHING OF DERIVATIVES OF L-FUNCTIONS ATTACHED TO HILBERT MODULAR FORMS

This paper is to show a non-vanishing property of the derivative of certain L-functions. For certain primitive holomorphic Hilbert modular forms, if the central critical value of the standard L-function does not vanish, then neither does its derivative. This is a generalization of a result by Gun, Murty and Rath in the case of elliptic modular forms. Some applications in transcendental number theory deduced from this result are discussed as well.