Zeros and poles of Dirichlet series (Q2569610)

Under certain mild analytic assumptions one obtains a lower bound, essentially of order \(r\), for the number of zeros and poles of a Dirichlet series in a disk of radius \(r\). A more precise result is also obtained under more restrictive assumptions but still applying to a large class of Dirichlet series. Theorem 1. Let \(f (s) = \sum a_ne^{\lambda_ns}\), \(\lambda_n \in\mathbb R\), be the sum of an exponential series uniformly convergent in a half-plane \(\text{Re}(s) > b\), admitting an analytic continuation in the whole complex plane as a non-constant meromorphic function of finite order. Suppose also that \(f(s)\) tends to a non-zero finite limit as \(\text{Re}(s)\to +\infty\). Then for any fixed \(\gamma < 1\) we have \[ \overline{\lim}_{r\to +\infty}\frac{N(r; 0; f) + N(r;\infty; f)}{r^\gamma} > 0. \] Theorem 2 proves this result for \(\gamma=1\) under the assumption \(f(s)\) is uniformly almost periodic in some half plane \(\text{Re}(s) < c\) and \(f(s)\) tends to a non-zero finite limit as \(\text{Re}(s)\to -\infty\). At the end some interesting concluding remarks are given.