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On Dirichlet series and functional equations

Number Theory 2017-04-11 v3

Abstract

There exist many explicit evaluations of Dirichlet series. Most of them are constructed via the same approach: by taking products or powers of Dirichlet series with a known Euler product representation. In this paper we derive a result of a new flavour: we give the Dirichlet series representation to solution f=f(s,w)f=f(s,w) of the functional equation L(swf)=exp(f)L(s-wf)=\exp(f), where L(s)L(s) is the L-function corresponding to a completely multiplicative function. Our result seems to be a Dirichlet series analogue of the well known Lagrange-B\"urmann formula for power series. The proof is probabilistic in nature and is based on Kendall's identity, which arises in the fluctuation theory of L\'evy processes.

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@article{arxiv.1703.08827,
  title  = {On Dirichlet series and functional equations},
  author = {Alexey Kuznetsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08827},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 1 figure

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