Functional equation and zeros on the critical line of the quadrilateral zeta function

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Abstract: For 0<ale1/2, we define the quadrilateral zeta function Q(s,a) using the Hurwitz and periodic zeta functions and show that Q(s,a) satisfies Riemann's functional equation studied by Hamburger, Heck and Knopp. Moreover, we prove that for any 0<ale1/2, there exist positive constants A(a) and T0(a) such that the number of zeros of the quadrilateral zeta function Q(s,a) on the line segment from 1/2 to 1/2+iT is greater than A(a)T whenever TgeT0(a).


Let \(s=\sigma+it\) be a complex variable. As it is well know, for \(\sigma>1\), the Hurwitz zeta-function with a parameter \(\alpha\), \(\alpha \in (0,1]\), and the periodic zeta function \(\mathrm{Li}(s, \alpha)\) are defined by \[ \zeta(s,\alpha)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{(n+\alpha)^s}, \text{ and }\mathrm{Li}(s, \alpha) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{e^{2\pi in\alpha}}{n^s}, \] respectively. Both of them converge absolutely in the half-plane \(\sigma > 1\) and uniformly in each compact subset of this half-plane. The function \(\zeta(s,\alpha)\) has analytic continuation to the complex-plane, except \(s = 1\) which is a simple pole with residue 1, while the function \(\mathrm{Li}(s, \alpha)\) with \(0 < \alpha < 1\) is analytically continuable to the whole complex plane. For \(0 < \alpha \leq \frac{1}{2}\), the quadrilateral zeta function \(Q(s, \alpha)\) is defined as \[ 2Q(s, \alpha) := \zeta(s, \alpha) + \zeta(s, 1 -\alpha) + \mathrm{Li}(s, \alpha) + \mathrm{Li}(s, 1 - \alpha). \] The function \(Q(s, \alpha)\) can be continued analytically to the whole complex plane except \(s = 1\). In the paper, it is proved a functional equation for \(Q(s,\alpha)\), i.e., that, for \(0 < \alpha \leq \frac{1}{2}\), it holds \[ Q(1-s,\alpha)=\frac{2 \Gamma(s)}{(2 \pi)^s}\cos\bigg(\frac{\pi s}{2}\bigg)Q(s,\alpha). \] A second result of the paper states, that, for any \(0 < \alpha \leq \frac{1}{2}\), there exist positive constants \(A(\alpha)\) and \(T_0(\alpha)\) such that the number of zeros of the function \(Q(s,\alpha)\) on the line segment from \(\frac{1}{2}\) to \(\frac{1}{2} +iT\) is greater than \(A(\alpha)T\) for \(T \geq T_0(\alpha)\). This fact implies that \(Q(s, \alpha)\) has infinitely many zeros on the critical line \(\sigma = \frac{1}{2}\).











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