Regularly increasing Dirichlet series converging absolutely in a half-plane (Q2386924)

Let \(0 =\lambda_0 <\lambda_n\uparrow +\infty\) (\(n\to \infty\)), and the Dirichlet series \[ F(s)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_n\exp\{s\lambda_n\},\quad s=\sigma + it, \tag{1} \] possess zero abscissa of absolute convergence. For \(\sigma < 0\), we set \(M(\sigma, F)=\max\{| F(\sigma + it\}| : t\in\mathbb R\}\), and let \(\mu(\sigma,F) = \max\{| a_n| \exp\{\sigma\lambda_n\} : n\geq 0\}\) be the maximal term, \(\nu(\sigma,F)=\max\{n:\exp\{\sigma\lambda_n\}=\mu(\sigma,F)\}\) be the central index, and \(\Lambda(\sigma,f) = \lambda_{\nu(\sigma, F)}\) be the central exponent of series (1). A positive measurable function on \([a, 0)\) \(l\) is said to be slowly varying if \(l(c\sigma)\sim l(\sigma)\) as \(\sigma\uparrow 0\) for any \(c\in (0,+\infty)\), and is said to be regularly varying of index (order) \(\rho\in [0, +\infty)\) if \(l(\sigma) = | \sigma| ^{-\rho}\alpha(\sigma)\), where \(\alpha\) is a slowly varying function. Note that the function \(l\) is regularly varying of index \(\rho\) iff \(l(c\sigma)/l(\sigma)\to c^{-\rho}\) as \(\sigma\uparrow 0\) for any \(c\in (0, +\infty)\). The objective of this article is to find conditions upon the coefficients and exponents of series (1), under which the functions \(\ln M(\sigma, F)\), \(\ln\mu(\sigma,F)\), and \(\Lambda(\sigma, F)\) are regularly varying.