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A Class of Identities Associated with Dirichlet Series Satisfying Hecke's Functional Equation

Number Theory 2021-09-01 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We consider two sequences a(n)a(n) and b(n)b(n), 1n<1\leq n<\infty, generated by Dirichlet series of the forms n=1a(n)λnsandn=1b(n)μns,\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{a(n)}{\lambda_n^{s}}\qquad\text{and}\qquad \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{b(n)}{\mu_n^{s}}, satisfying a familiar functional equation involving the gamma function Γ(s)\Gamma(s). A general identity is established. Appearing on one side is an infinite series involving a(n)a(n) and modified Bessel functions KνK_{\nu}, wherein on the other side is an infinite series involving b(n)b(n) that is an analogue of the Hurwitz zeta function. Seven special cases, including a(n)=τ(n)a(n)=\tau(n) and a(n)=rk(n)a(n)=r_k(n), are examined, where τ(n)\tau(n) is Ramanujan's arithmetical function and rk(n)r_k(n) denotes the number of representations of nn as a sum of kk squares. Most of the six special cases appear to be new.

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@article{arxiv.2108.13991,
  title  = {A Class of Identities Associated with Dirichlet Series Satisfying Hecke's Functional Equation},
  author = {Bruce C. Berndt and Atul Dixit and Rajat Gupta and Alexandru Zaharescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.13991},
  year   = {2021}
}