We prove an explicit formula for the cubic moment of central values of automorphic L-functions associated to primitive cusp forms of level one and large weight. The resulting explicit formula contains the main term predicted by the random matrix theory conjectures, while the error term is expressed as the fourth moment of the Riemann zeta function weighted by the F23 hypergeometric function. As a corollary, we derive a new upper bound for the cubic moment improving the previous result of Peng. Furthermore, we obtain a new subconvexity estimate for automorphic L-functions in the weight aspect.
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