Generalized Lerch formulas: examples of zeta-regularized products (Q852525)

The author investigates a zeta-regularized products \({\widehat \prod}_{n}a_{n}\) of the sequence \(\{a_n\}_n\). The main result deals with generalization of Lerch's formula, i.e., for \(z_j\in\setminus \{0,-1,-2,\ldots\}\), \[ {\mathop{{\widehat\prod}}}_{m=0}^{\infty}\bigg(\prod\nolimits_{j=1}^{n}(m+z_j)\bigg)=\frac{(\sqrt{2 \pi})^n}{\prod\nolimits_{j=1}^{n}\Gamma(z_j)}=\prod\nolimits_{j=1}^{n}\bigg({\mathop{{\widehat\prod}}}_{m=0}^{\infty} (m+z_j)\bigg), \] where \(\Gamma(z)\) is the Euler gamma function. As a part of results, the author obtains the formula of Lerch, Kurokawa and Wakayama. Also, two-dimensional analogue and \(q\)-analogue of main result are given. For example, for \(q>1\), \(z_j>1\), \[ {\mathop{{\widehat\prod}}}_{m=0}^{\infty}\bigg(\prod\nolimits_{j=1}^{n}[m+z_j]_q\bigg)= \frac{C_q^n}{\prod_{j=1}^{n}\Gamma_q(z_j)}q^{-\frac{1}{2n}(\sum_{j=1}^{n}z_j)^2+\frac{1}{2}\sum_{j=1}^{n}z_j^2} \] \[ =q^{-\frac{1}{2n}(\sum_{j=1}^{n}z_j)^2+\frac{1}{2}\sum_{j=1}^{n}z_j^2} \prod\nolimits_{j=1}^{n}\bigg({\mathop{{\widehat\prod}}}_{m=0}^{\infty}[n+z_j]_q\bigg), \] where \([x]_q=\frac{q^x-1}{q-1}\) is the \(q\)-analogue of \(x\), \(\Gamma_q(x)=\frac{\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}(1-q^{-n})}{\prod_{n=0}^{\infty}(1-q^{-(x+n)})}(q-1)^{1-x}q^{\frac{x(x-1)}{2}}\) is Jackson's \(q\)-gamma function, and \(C_q={\mathop{{\widehat\prod}}}_{n=1}^{\infty}[n]_q\).