Global series for height 1 multiple zeta functions (Q6076274)

For positive integers \(s_2,\ldots,s_j\), let \[ \zeta(s,s_2,\ldots,s_j)=\sum\limits_{n_1>n_2>\cdots>n_j>0}\frac{1}{n_1^{s}n_2^{s_2}\cdots n_j^{s_j}} \] be the single-variable function on the variable \(s\in\mathbb{C}\) defined for \(\operatorname{Re}(s)>1\), which is a multiple zeta value in the case when \(s=s_1\in\mathbb{Z}_{>1}\). As the quantity \(\sharp\{i\mid s_i>1\}\) is the height of the multiple zeta value \(\zeta(s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_j)\), the multiple zeta function \(\zeta(s,\{1\}^{j-1})\) is called the height \(1\) zeta function. The paper under review studies the analytic properties of the height \(1\) zeta function. By applying the higher order derivatives with respect to \(r\) to the multiple Hurwitz zeta function \(\zeta_r(s,a)\), the author obtains a meromorphic continuation of the height \(1\) zeta function to the complex plane and finds all the poles. Then the author determines the singular parts of the Laurent series at each of the poles, and gives expressions for the linear Laurent coefficients, which are series involving the Bernoulli numbers of the second kind. The results generalize the classical Mascheroni series for Euler's constant. Finally, the author gives the linear Laurent coefficients at \(s=1\) and at \(s=0\) in terms of the Ramanujan summation of multiple harmonic star sums \(\zeta^{\star}_n(1,\ldots,1)\) defined as \[ \zeta_{n}^{\star}(\{1\}^j)=\sum\limits_{n\geq n_1\geq n_2\geq \cdots\geq n_j\geq 1}\frac{1}{n_1n_2\cdots n_j}. \]