The Mellin transform of Hardy's function is entire (Q650323)

The author investigates the (modified) Mellin transform \[ {\mathcal M(s)} := \int_1^\infty Z(x)x^{-s}dx, \] where as usual \(Z(t)\) is Hardy's function defined as \[ Z(t) := \zeta(\tfrac{1}{2}+it)\bigl(\chi(\tfrac{1}{2}+it)\bigr)^{-1/2}, \quad \zeta(s) = \chi(s)\zeta(1-s), \] so that \(Z(t)\) is real for real \(t\) and \(|Z(t)| = |\zeta(\frac{1}{2}+it)|\). The reviewer [Hardy-Ramanujan J. 33, 32--58 (2010; Zbl 1200.11062)] proved that \({\mathcal M}(s)\), which initially converges absolutely for \(\text{Re}\, s > 1\), can be analytically continued to a holomorphic function in the half-plane \(\text{Re}\, s >0\). In the present paper the author shows that actually \({\mathcal M}(s)\) can be analytically continued to an entire function on \(\mathbb C\). The proof of this result depends on a modification of a method used by the author in a previous paper [Period. Math. Hung. 42, No. 1--2, 179--190 (2001; Zbl 1012.11082)]. Therein he proved the meromorphic continuation of the modified Mellin transform of \(Z^2(x)\) as a consequence of the meromorphy of \(\zeta^2(s)\). Also, the holomorphy of \({\mathcal M}(s)\) will be a consequence of the same property for the function \((2^{1-s}-1)\zeta(s)\). Erratum text: The abstract of this paper contained several misprints due to a faulty Russian translation; it should read as follows: ``We prove that an appropriately modified Mellin transform of the Hardy function \(Z(x)\) is an entire function. The proof is based on the fact that the function \((2^{1 - s } - 1)\zeta (s)\) is entire.''