The \(p\)-adic Hurwitz \(L\)-functions (Q1165902)

\textit{Y. Morita} [J. Fac. Sci., Univ. Tokyo, Sect. I A 24, 29--43 (1977; Zbl 0356.12019)] constructed a \(p\)-adic analogue of the Hurwitz-Lerch \(L\)-function \(L(s,a,b,\chi)\) by means of interpolating the values at nonpositive integers and gave the Laurent expansion at \(s=1\). In this paper, the author constructs \(p\)-adic analogues \(\alpha_\ell^*(a,\chi)\) of the coefficients of the Taylor expansion at \(s=0\) of the Hurwitz \(L\)-function \(L(s,a,1,\chi)\) and introduces a \(p\)-adic analogue of the Hurwitz \(L\)-function as a power series \(\displaystyle \zeta_p(s,a,\chi) = \sum_{\ell = 0}^\infty \alpha_\ell^*(a,\chi) s^\ell\). This \(p\)-adic series turns out to coincide with Morita's \(L_p(s,a,1,\chi\omega)\) where \(\omega\) is the character satisfying \(\omega(x)\equiv x\pmod{q\mathbb Z_p}\).