Bohr's Last Problem Under the Entirety Hypothesis: A Survey with Initial Reductions
Abstract
Bohr's last problem (1952) asks whether every ordinary Dirichlet series with nonzero Lindel\"of order function has ; a negative answer would imply Lindel\"of for . Kahane (1989) refuted this with half-plane counterexamples. We study the refinement for series with entire continuation of order : the Analytic Lindel\"of Hypothesis that is piecewise linear with integer slopes. Deforming the Mellin integral to the strip boundary reduces to a residue sum over singularities of the generating function on , giving . For classical -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 , with the ternary Cantor measure. Its Kaczorowski--Perelli twist spectrum is empty; we prove unconditionally via a Montgomery--Vaughan argument on the product variable , where a Vieta identity guarantees distinct frequencies. A Cantor-weighted Hurwitz second-moment conjecture would give .
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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}
}