Convolution of values of the Lerch zeta-function (Q2197499)

Motivated by the very classical ``convolutional'' result of the special depth 2 MZV \[\zeta(n-1,1)=\frac{n-1}{2} \zeta(n)-\frac{1}{2} \sum_{j=2}^{n-2} \zeta(j) \zeta(n-j),\] the authors prove a convolution identity for the Lerch zeta function \[\Phi(z ; \alpha ; s):=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{z^{n}}{(n+\alpha)^{s}}.\] The main result is that, under appropriate restrictions of the parameters, \[\sum_{j=1}^{k-1} \Phi\left(z_{1} ; \alpha ; j\right) \Phi\left(z_{2} ; \alpha ; k-j\right)\] \[=(k-1) \Phi\left(z_{1} z_{2} ; \alpha ; k\right)-\left(\log \left(1-z_{1}\right)+\log \left(1-z_{2}\right)\right) \Phi\left(z_{1} z_{2} ; \alpha ; k-1\right)\] \[\quad-z_{2}^{-1} \Phi\left(z_{1} z_{2}, z_{2}^{-1} ; \alpha, 1 ; k-1,1\right)-z_{1}^{-1} \Phi\left(z_{1} z_{2}, z_{1}^{-1} ; \alpha, 1 ; k-1,1\right).\] The last two terms are the multiple Lerch-zeta functions \[\Phi\left(z_{1}, \cdots, z_{r} ; \alpha_{1}, \cdots, \alpha_{r} ; s_{1}, \cdots, s_{r}\right):=\sum_{n_{1}>n_{2}>\cdots>n_{r} \geq 0} \frac{z_{1}^{n_{1}} \cdots z_{r}^{n_{r}}}{\left(n_{1}+\alpha_{1}\right)^{s_{1}} \cdots\left(n_{r}+\alpha_{r}\right)^{s_{r}}}.\] Numerous corollaries are drawn from the above result.