Convergence of Madelung-like lattice sums

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-98-01983-7MaRDI QIDQ4211095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Borwein, Jonathan M. Borwein, Chris Pinner

Publication date 10 September 1998

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9947-98-01983-7

zbMATH Keywords

conditional convergenceDirichlet seriesLattice sumsMadelung's constanttheta functionszeta functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice points in specified regions (11P21) Zeta functions and (L)-functions (11S40) Dirichlet series, exponential series and other series in one complex variable (30B50) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05) Multiple sequences and series (40B05) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

Review text

The authors investigate convergence properties of sums of the form \[ A_\nu(s):= \sum_{(x_1,\dots, x_k)\in C_\nu} \frac{(-1)^{x_1+\cdots+ x_k}} {Q(x_1,\dots, x_k)^s} \] where \(Q\) is a positive definite symmetric quadratic form and \(C_\nu= \nu C\cap (\mathbb{Z}^k \setminus 0)\) with \(C\subseteq \mathbb{R}^k\) bounded. The prototype is Madelung's constant for NaCl: \[ \sum_{-\infty}^\infty \frac{(-1)^{n+m+p}} {\sqrt{n^2+m^2+p^2}}= -1.74756459\dots, \] which depends on the summation process. The main result is that \(\lim_{\nu\to\infty} A_\nu(s)\) exists and is analytic down to \(\text{Re } s>(k-1)/2\) for all reasonably shaped regions \(C\) (e.g. convex in one of the variables), and hence that the limit is independent of such \(C\). Moreover, they prove that for any specific regions \(C\) (e.g., certain ellipses or polygons) the area of convergence can be extended; for rectangles even down to \(\text{Re } s>0\).

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