A note on the construction of the proximate type of an entire Dirichlet series with index-pair (p,q) (Q1085304)

Considering a natural extension of the notion of Lindelöf's proximate order of an entire function f(s) \((s=\sigma +it)\), \textit{A. G. Azpeitia} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 104, 495-501 (1962; Zbl 0114.038)] indicated how one can establish his propositions of existence of linear proximate orders R(\(\sigma)\) and linear lower proximate orders L(\(\sigma)\) for f(s) defined by a Dirichlet series. Motivated by Azpeitia's work, \textit{R. S. L. Srivastava} and \textit{P. Singh} [J. Math. (Jabalpur) 2, 3-10 (1966)] proved the corresponding existence theorem for the proximate type T(\(\sigma)\) of an entire Dirichlet series representing f(s). For an interesting generalization of this theorem to hold true for an entire Dirichlet series with index-pair (p,q), which is due essentially to \textit{H. S. Kasana} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 105, 445-451 (1985; Zbl 0563.30020)], a remarkably simple (and markedly different) construction of the proximate type T(\(\sigma)\) is presented here. The main theorem established here applies to a much larger class of entire Dirichlet series with index-pair (p,q) than that considered earlier.