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Modular relations involving generalized digamma functions

Number Theory 2023-06-23 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs Combinatorics

Abstract

Generalized digamma functions ψk(x)\psi_k(x), studied by Ramanujan, Deninger, Dilcher, Kanemitsu, Ishibashi etc., appear as the Laurent series coefficients of the zeta function associated to an indefinite quadratic form. In this paper, a modular relation of the form Fk(α)=Fk(1/α)F_k(\alpha)=F_k(1/\alpha) containing infinite series of ψk(x)\psi_k(x), or, equivalently, between the generalized Stieltjes constants γk(x)\gamma_k(x), is obtained for any kNk\in\mathbb{N}. When k=0k=0, it reduces to a famous transformation given on page 220220 of Ramanujan's Lost Notebook. For k=1k=1, an integral containing Riemann's Ξ\Xi-function, and corresponding to the aforementioned modular relation, is also obtained along with its asymptotic expansions as α0\alpha\to0 and α\alpha\to\infty. Carlitz-type and Guinand-type finite modular relations involving ψj(m)(x),0jk,mN{0},\psi_j^{(m)}(x), 0\leq j\leq k, m\in\mathbb{N}\cup\{0\}, are also derived, thereby extending previous results on the digamma function ψ(x)\psi(x). The extension of Guinand's result for ψj(m)(x),m2,\psi_j^{(m)}(x), m\geq2, involves an interesting combinatorial sum h(r)h(r) over integer partitions of 2r2r into exactly rr parts. This sum plays a crucial role in an inversion formula needed for this extension. This formula has connection with the inversion formula for the inverse of a triangular Toeplitz matrix. The modular relation for ψj(x)\psi_j'(x) is subtle and requires delicate analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2306.10991,
  title  = {Modular relations involving generalized digamma functions},
  author = {Atul Dixit and Sumukha Sathyanarayana and N. Guru Sharan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10991},
  year   = {2023}
}

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32 pages, submitted for publication; comments are welcome. Corrected the funding information in the first version

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