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Infinite order linear differential equation satisfied by $p$-adic Hurwitz-type Euler zeta functions

Number Theory 2021-03-17 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

In 1900, at the international congress of mathematicians, Hilbert claimed that the Riemann zeta function ζ(s)\zeta(s) is not the solution of any algebraic ordinary differential equations on its region of analyticity. In 2015, Van Gorder considered the question of whether ζ(s)\zeta(s) satisfies a non-algebraic differential equation and showed that it formally satisfies an infinite order linear differential equation. Recently, Prado and Klinger-Logan extended Van Gorder's result to show that the Hurwitz zeta function ζ(s,a)\zeta(s,a) is also formally satisfies a similar differential equation \begin{equation*}\label{HurDE} T\left[\zeta (s,a) - \frac{1}{a^s}\right] = \frac{1}{(s-1)a^{s-1}}. \end{equation*} But unfortunately in the same paper they proved that the operator TT applied to Hurwitz zeta function ζ(s,a)\zeta(s,a) does not converge at any point in the complex plane C\mathbb{C}. In this paper, by defining TpaT_{p}^{a}, a pp-adic analogue of Van Gorder's operator T,T, we establish an analogue of Prado and Klinger-Logan's differential equation satisfied by ζp,E(s,a)\zeta_{p,E}(s,a) which is the pp-adic analogue of the Hurwitz-type Euler zeta functions \begin{equation*}\label{HEZ} \zeta_E(s,a)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(-1)^n}{(n+a)^s}. \end{equation*} In contrast with the complex case, due to the non-archimedean property, the operator TpaT_{p}^{a} applied to the pp-adic Hurwitz-type Euler zeta function ζp,E(s,a)\zeta_{p,E}(s,a) is convergent pp-adically in the area of sZps\in\mathbb{Z}_{p} with s1s\neq 1 and aKa\in K with ap>1,|a|_{p}>1, where KK is any finite extension of Qp\mathbb{Q}_{p} with ramification index over Qp\mathbb{Q}_{p} less than p1.p-1.

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@article{arxiv.2008.07218,
  title  = {Infinite order linear differential equation satisfied by $p$-adic Hurwitz-type Euler zeta functions},
  author = {Su Hu and Min-Soo Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.07218},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

18 pages. Final version. Dedicated to the memory of Prof. David Goss (1952-2017)

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