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Bohr's Last Problem Under the Entirety Hypothesis: A Survey with Initial Reductions

Number Theory 2026-03-25 v1

Abstract

Bohr's last problem (1952) asks whether every ordinary Dirichlet series with nonzero Lindel\"of order function μ\mu has μ(ωμ0)1\mu'(\omega_\mu{-}0)\le-1; a negative answer would imply Lindel\"of for ζ\zeta. Kahane (1989) refuted this with half-plane counterexamples. We study the refinement for series with entire continuation of order 1\le 1: the Analytic Lindel\"of Hypothesis that μ\mu is piecewise linear with integer slopes. Deforming the Mellin integral to the strip boundary reduces μL\mu_L to a residue sum over singularities of the generating function on x=1|x|=1, giving μL(σ)=max(0,12σ+ρ)\mu_L(\sigma)=\max(0,\tfrac12-\sigma+\rho). For classical LL-functions this sum is the functional-equation dual, and bounding it is Lindel\"of; for self-similar or random singularities it is a Rajchman Fourier transform. We show Kahane's half-plane examples fail entirety, his entire random examples have integer slopes a.s., and Lerch-Lindel\"of implies ALH. Our central construction is the Cantor Dirichlet series L(s)=ν^(n)nsL(s)=\sum\hat\nu(n)n^{-s}, with ν\nu the ternary Cantor measure. Its Kaczorowski--Perelli twist spectrum is empty; we prove μL(12)18\mu_L(\tfrac12)\le\tfrac18 unconditionally via a Montgomery--Vaughan argument on the product variable (m1+α)(m2+α)(m_1+\alpha)(m_2+\alpha), where a Vieta identity guarantees distinct frequencies. A Cantor-weighted Hurwitz second-moment conjecture would give μL(12)=0\mu_L(\tfrac12)=0.

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@article{arxiv.2603.23336,
  title  = {Bohr's Last Problem Under the Entirety Hypothesis: A Survey with Initial Reductions},
  author = {Ralph Furmaniak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.23336},
  year   = {2026}
}
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