Journal of Mathematics

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 181724, 17 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/181724

Research Article

Integral and Series Representations of Riemann's Zeta Function and Dirichlet's Eta Function and a Medley of Related Results

Michael S. Milgram

Consulting Physicist, Geometrics Unlimited, Ltd., P.O. Box 1484, Deep River, ON, Canada, K0J 1P0

Received 22 September 2012; Accepted 20 December 2012

Academic Editor: Alfredo Peris

Copyright © 2013 Michael S. Milgram. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

Contour integral representations of Riemann's Zeta function and Dirichlet's Eta (alternating Zeta) function are presented and investigated. These representations flow naturally from methods developed in the 1800s, but somehow they do not appear in the standard reference summaries, textbooks, or literature. Using these representations as a basis, alternate derivations of known series and integral representations for the Zeta and Eta function are obtained on a unified basis that differs from the textbook approach, and results are developed that appear to be new.

Dedicated to the memory of Leslie M. Saunders,

died September 8, 1972, age 29

1. Introduction

Riemann's Zeta function and its sibling Dirichlet's (alternating zeta) function play an important role in physics, complex analysis, and number theory and have been studied extensively for several centuries. In the same vein, the general importance of a contour integral representation of any function has been known for almost two centuries, so it is surprising that contour integral representations for both and exist that cannot be found in any of the modern handbooks (NIST, [1, Section ]; Abramowitz and Stegun, [2, Chapter 23]), textbooks (Apostol, [3, Chapter 12]; Olver, [4, Chapter 8.2]; Titchmarsh, [5, Chapter 4]; Whittaker and Watson, [6, Section ]), summaries (Edwards, [7], Ivić, [8, Chapter 4]; Patterson, [9]; Srivastava and Choi, [10, 11]), compendia (Erdélyi et al., [12, Section 1.12] and Chapter 17), tables (Gradshteyn and Ryzhik, [13], 9.512; Prudnikov et al, [14, Appendix ]), and websites [1, 15–19] that summarize what is known about these functions. One can only conclude that such representations, generally discussed in the literature of the late 1800s, have been long-buried and their significance has been overlooked by modern scholars.

It is the purpose of this work to disinter these representations and revisit and explore some of the consequences. In particular, it is possible to obtain series and integral representations of and that unify and generalize well-known results in various limits and combinations and reproduce results that are only now being discovered and investigated by alternate means. Additionally, it is possible to explore the properties of in the complex plane and on the critical line and obtain results that appear to be new. Many of the results obtained are disparate and difficult to categorize in a unified manner but share the common theme that they are all somehow obtained from a study of the revived integral representations. That is the unifying theme of this work. To maintain a semblance of brevity, most of the derivations are only sketched, with citations sufficient enough to allow the reader to reproduce any result for her/himself.

2. Contour Integral Representations of and

Throughout, I will use , where (complex), (reals), and and are positive integers.

The Riemann Zeta function and the Dirichlet alternating zeta function are well known and defined by (convergent) series representations:

with

It is easily found by an elementary application of the residue theorem that the following reproduces (1):

and the following reproduces (2):

Convert the result (4) into a contour integral enclosing the positive integers on the -axis in a clockwise direction, and provided that so that contributions from infinity vanish, the contour may then be opened such that it stretches vertically in the complex -plane, giving

a result that cannot be found in any of the modern reference works cited (in particular [20]). It should be noted that this procedure is hardly novel—it is often employed in an educational context (e.g., in the special case ) to demonstrate the utility of complex integration to evaluate special sums ([10, Section 4.1]), ([21, Lemma 2.1]) and forms the basis for an entire branch of physics [22].

A similar application to (5), with some trivial trigonometric simplification, gives

Equation (9) reduces, with , to a Jensen result [23], presented (without proof) in 1895, and, to the best of my knowledge, reproduced, again, but only in the special case , only once in the modern reference literature [17]. In particular, although Lindelof's 1905 work [24] arrives at a result equivalent to that obtained here, attributing the technique to Cauchy (1827), it is performed in a general context, so that the specific results (7) and (9) never appear, particularly in that section of the work devoted to . In modern notation, for a meromorphic function , Lindelof writes ([24, Equation ]) in general

where the contour of integration encloses all the singularities of the integrand but never specifically identifies . Much later, after the integral has been split into two by the invocation of identities for , he does make this identification ([24, Equation ]), arriving (with (3)) at ((26)—see below) a now-well-known result, thereby bypassing the contour integral representation (7). In a similar vein, Olver ([4, page 290]) reproduces (10), employing it to evaluate remainder terms, the Abel-Plana formula and a Jensen result but again never writes (7) explicitly. Perhaps the omission of an explicit statement of (7) and (9) from Chapter IV of Lindelof [24] is why these forms seem to have vanished from the historical record, although citations to Jensen and Lindelof abound in modern summaries. (Recently, Srivastava and Choi [11, pages 169–172], have reproduced Lindelof's analysis, also failing to arrive explicitly at (7); although they do write a general form of (8) ([11, Section 2.3, Equation ]), it is studied only for the case .) (Note added in proof: after a draft copy of this paper was posted, I was made aware that Ruijsenaars has previously obtained a generalized form of (7) for the Hurwitz zeta function ([25, Equation ]). He also notes (private communication) that he could not find prior references to his result in the literature).

At this point, it is worthwhile to quote several related integral representations that define some of the relevant and important functions of complex analysis, starting with Riemann's original 1859 contour integral representation of the zeta function [26]:

where the contour of integration encloses the negative -axis, looping from to enclosing the point .

The equivalence of (11) and (1) is well described in texts (e.g., [11]) and is obtained by reducing three components of the contour in (11). A different analysis is possible however (e.g., [7, Section 1.6])—open and translate the contour in (11) such that it lies vertically to the right of the origin in the complex -plane (and thereby vanishes) with and evaluate the residues of each of the poles of the integrand lying at to find

This can be further reduced, giving the well-known functional equation for :

which is valid for all by analytic continuation from . This demonstrates that (11) and (6) are fundamentally different representations of , since further deformations of (11) do not lead to (7).

Ephemerally, at one time it was noted in [17] that the following complex integral representation

can be obtained by the invocation of the Cauchy-Schlömilch transformation [27]. In fact, the representation (14) follows by the simple expedient of integrating (7) by parts in the special case (see (35)), as also noted in [17]. Another result

obtained in [27] on the basis of the Cauchy-Schlömilch transformation does not follow from (14) as erroneously claimed at one time, but later corrected, in [17].

Based on (11), a number of other representations of are well known. From the tables cited, the following are worth noting here:

([12, Equation ])

([12, Equation ])

and ([13, Equation ])

By way of comparison, Laplace’s representation ([13, Equation ])

defines the inverse Gamma function.

3. Simple Reductions

3.1. The Case

The simplest reductions of (7) and (9) are obtained by uniting the two halves of their range corresponding to and . With the use of

one finds (with and , resp.)

the latter valid for all . In the case that , (22) reduces to

equivalent to the well-known result (attributed to Jensen by Lindelof, and a special case of Hermite's result for the Hurwitz zeta function ([6, Section 13.2)]) (which also appears as an exercise in many textbooks—for example, [11, Equation ]):

Similarly, (23) reduces to the known ([24, ]) result:

Comparison of (24) and (25) immediately yields the known result ([13, Equation ]):

Notice that (25) and (26) are valid for all . Simple substitution of in (23) gives

which, after taking (3) into account, leads to

displaying the existence of the trivial zeros of at , since the integral in (29) is clearly finite at each of these values of . The result (29) is equivalent to the known result (16) after taking (13) into account. Other possibilities abound. For example, set in (22) to obtain

Further, a novel representation can be found by noting that (9) is invariant under the transformation of variables together with the choice along with the requirement that . This effectively allows one to choose , yielding the following complex representation for , as well as the the corresponding representation for because of (3), which is valid in the critical strip :

Because (20) and (21) are valid for , it follows that (23) with is also a valid representation for , as well as the the corresponding representation for with recourse to (3), again only valid in the critical strip . Another interesting variation is the choice in (23), valid for , again applicable to the corresponding representation for because of (3). Such a representation may find application in the analysis of in the asymptotic limit . Finally, the choice leads to an interesting variation that is discussed in Section 9.

3.2. Simple Recursion via Partial Differentiation

As a function of , and are constant, as are their integral representations over a range corresponding to ; however the integrals change discontinuously at each new value of that corresponds to a new value of . Thus, the operator acting on (7) and (9) vanishes, except at nonnegative integers , when it becomes indefinite. Therefore, it is of interest to investigate this operation in the neighbourhood of as well as the limit .

Applied to (9) (and equivalent to integration by parts), the requirement that

and identification of one of the resulting terms yields

a new result with improved convergence at infinity. Similarly operating with on (7) yields

(It should be noted that Srivastava et al. [20] study an incomplete form of (35) in order to obtain representations for sums both involving , and by itself, without commenting on the significance of the contour integral with infinite bounds (35).) Using (20) and (21) to reduce the integration range of (34) gives a fairly lengthy result for general values of . If , (34) becomes

which, by letting , can be rewritten as

and, with regard to (3),

Similarly, ((37) and (38) are the first two entries in a family of recursive relationships that will be discussed elsewhere (in preparation)). In the case that , (35) reduces to the well-known result ([24, Equation ] (attributed to Jensen [23]))

If in (34) (for the case in (35) see the following section), one finds a finite result (also equivalent to integrating (28) by parts):

and, when , one finds the unusual forms:

which is valid for any and all (particularly or ), after deformation of the contour of integration in (34) either to the left or to the right of the singularity at , respectively, belonging to a choice of where the symbol means zero or one as the case may be.

4. Special Cases

4.1. The Case

With respect to (35), setting together with some simplification gives

reproducing (18), with , after taking (13) into account. This same case () naturally suggests that the integral in (6) be broken into two parts:

where

such that the contour in (44) bypasses the origin to the right. It is easy to show that the sum of the two integrals in (45) reduces to

the latter being valid for all . One, of several commonly used possibilities of reducing (44), is to apply ([28, Equation ])

giving

being convergent for all . Such sums appear frequently in the literature (e.g., [10, 29] Section ) and have been studied extensively when [10, 30]. In the case , (49) reduces to    and (47) vanishes.

Along with (42) the integral in (35) can be similarly split, using the convergent series representation:

where the Bernoulli numbers appearing in the original ([28, Equation (50.6.10)]) are related to by

Thus the representation

becomes (formally)

after straightforward integration of (50) with . In (53), the integral converges, and the formal sum conditionally converges or diverges according to several tests. Howver, further analysis is still possible. Following the method of [10, Section 3.3] applied to (49), together with [10, Equation ], we have the following general result for :

so that (formally), after premultiplying (55) with , then operating with ,

Notice that the right-hand side of (55) provides an analytic continuation of the left-hand side for and the right-hand side of (57) gives a regularization of the left-hand side. Putting together (53) and (57), incorporating the first term of (57) into the second term of (53), setting , and constraining eventually yields a new integral representation (compare with (121), [31, Equation ] and [25, Equation ]):

which is valid for , a nonoverlapping analytic continuation of (42) that spans the critical strip. Additionally, using (13) followed by replacing gives a second representation:

valid for , a non-overlapping analytic continuation of (18). Over the critical strip representations (58) and (59) are simultaneously true and augment the rather short list of other representations that share this property ([32], as cited in [12] (unnumbered equations immediately following , also reproduced in [11, Equations ].)). See Section 9 for further application of this result.

4.2. The Case

Interesting results can be obtained by translating the contour in (6) and (9) and adding the residues so-omitted. From (1) and (2) define the partial sums

let , with

and adjust all the above results accordingly by redefining . (If , an extra half-residue is removed and the contour deformed to pass to the right of the point .) This gives, for example, the generalization of (6):

and (9):

so (22) and (23) with become integral representations of the remainder of the partial sums and , the former corresponding to a special case of the Hurwitz zeta function .

In the case that , one finds

with the latter two results being valid for all . Neither (64) nor (66) appear in references; (65) corresponds to a limiting case of Hermite's representation of the Hurwitz zeta function ([12, Equation ]). In analogy to the developments leading to (27), equations (64), (66), and (3), together with the following modified form of [13, Equation ]

can be used to obtain the possibly new result:

For corresponding to general partial sums, two possibilities are apparent. Based on (20), (21), (22), and (23) (for comparison, see also [4, Section 8.3], and [7, Section ] and Chapter 7), we find

which together extend (24) and (26), respectively. Application of (34) and (35) with (20) and (21), also with , gives the remainders

which are valid for all . For the case applying (62) and (63) gives the remainders

which extend (64) and (66), the latter being valid for all . It should be noted that (74), valid for , generalizes well-established results (e.g., [13, Equation ]) that are only valid in the limiting case . (Although [13, Equation ] gives (with a missing minus sign) an integral representation for finite sums such as those appearing in (74), specified to be valid only for integer exponents (), that particular result in [13] also appears to apply after the generalization .) Omitting the integral term from (70) gives an upper bound for the remainder; similarly, omitting the integral term in (74) gives a lower bound for the remainder, provided that in both cases. In addition, many of the above results, in particular (70) and (74), appear to be new and should be compared to classical results such as [8, Theorem 1.8, page 23 and pages 99-100], and asymptotic approximations such as [33, Equation ].

5. Series Representations

5.1. By Parts

By simple manipulation of the integral representations given, it is possible to obtain new series representations. Starting from the integral representation (29), integrate by parts, giving

where the hypergeometric function arises because of [34, Equation ]. Write the hypergeometric function as a (uniformly convergent) series, thereby permitting the sum and integral to be interchanged, apply a second integration by parts, and find

Identify the integral in (77) using (18) giving

which is valid for all values of by the ratio test and the principle of analytic continuation. This result, which appears to be new, can be rewritten by extracting the term, and applying (13) to yield

a representation, valid for all values of , that is reminiscent of the following similar sum recently obtained by Tyagi and Holm ([31, Equation ]):

(convergent by Gauss’ test). Equation (79) can also be rewritten in the form

by replacing and applying (13).

With reference to (7), express the numerator factor as a difference of exponentials each of which in turn is written as a convergent power series in , and recognize that the resulting series can be interchanged with the integral and each term identified using (9) to find

A more interesting variation of (82) can be obtained by applying (3) and explicitly identifying the term of the sum giving

a convergent representation if (by Gauss' test). An immediate consequence is the identification

because only the term in the sum contributes when . Additionally, when , (83) terminates at terms, becoming a recursion for in terms of —see Section 8 for further discussion. If the functional equation (13) is used to extend its region of convergence, (83) becomes

which augments similar series appearing in [10, Sections 4.2 and 4.3], and corresponds to a combination of entries in [28, Equations and ].

5.2. By Splitting

5.2.1. The Lower Range

After applying (13), the integral in (42) is frequently (e.g., [11]) and conveniently split in two, defining

with

for arbitrary . Similar to the derivation of (53), after application of (13) we have

which can be rewritten using (51) as

Substitute (1) in (90), interchange the order of summation, and identify the resulting series to obtain

a convergent representation that is valid for all .

Other representations are easily obtained by applying any of the standard hypergeometric linear transforms as in (118)—see Section 6. One such leads to

a rapidly converging representation for small values of , valid for all . The inner sum of (92) can be written in several ways. By expanding the denominator as a series in with and interchanging the two series, we find the general form

where the right-hand side continues the left if and . Alternatively, [28, Equation ] identifies

so for and in (93), each term of the inner series (92) can be obtained analytically by taking the th derivative of the right-hand side with respect to the variable at , leading to a rational polynomial in coth and sinh. The first few terms are given in Table 1 for two choices of .

Table 1: The first few values of ) in (93).

Analytic

0

0.156518
1.076674

1

0.927424 × 10⁻²
0.306837

2

0.795491 × 10⁻³
0.134296

Application of (93) to (92) leads to a less rapidly converging representation that can be expressed in terms of more familiar functions:

A second transform of the intermediate hypergeometric function yields another useful result:

Both (95) and (96) can be reordered along a diagonal of the double sum (), allowing one of the resulting (terminating) series to be evaluated in closed form. In either case, both eventually give

reducing to (49) in the case taking (13) into consideration. Series of the form (97) have been studied extensively [10, 11] when for special values of . These representations will find application in Section 8.

5.2.2. The Upper Range

Rewrite (87) in exponential form and expand the factor in a convergent power series, interchange the sum and integral, and recognize that the resulting integral is a generalized exponential integral usually defined in terms of incomplete Gamma functions ([1, 35], Section 8.19) as follows:

giving a rapidly converging series representation:

A useful variant of (99) is obtained by manipulating the well-known recurrence relation ([1, Equation ]) for to obtain

Apply (100) repeatedly times to (99) and find

in terms of logarithms and polylogarithms (), a result that loses numerical accuracy as increases, but which also, usefully, terminates if , . This is discussed in more detail in Section 8.

Another useful representation emerges from (99) by writing the function in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions. From [35, Equation ] and [36, Equation ], we find

where the series on the right-hand side converges absolutely if independent of . Comparison of (99), (88), and (102) identifies

which can be interpreted as a transformation of sums, or an analytic continuation, for the various guises of given in Section 5.2.1, if both, or either, of the two sides converge for some choice of the variables and/or , respectively. The fact that a term containing naturally appears in the expression (102) for suggests that there will be a severe cancellation of digits between the two terms and if (88) is used to attempt a numerical evaluation of , as has been reported elsewhere [37]. Essentially, (88) is numerically useless (with common choices of arithmetic precision) for any choices of , even if is carefully chosen in an attempt to balance the cancellation of digits. However, with 20 digits of precision, using 20 terms in the series, it is possible to find the first zero of correct to 10 digits, deteriorating rapidly thereafter as increases. For any choice of , the convergence properties of the two sums representing and anti-correlate, as can be seen from Table 1. This can also be seen by rewriting (102) to yield the combined representation:

In (104), the first inner term () vanishes like whereas the second term vanishes like , so for large values of cancellation of digits is bound to occur. (In fact, the coefficients of both asymptotic series prefaced by the exponential terms cancel exactly term by term.)

It should be noted that (102) is representative of a family of related transformations. For example, although setting in (102) does not lead to a new result, operating first with followed by setting leads to a transformation of a related sum:

where the first term corresponding to has been isolated, since it contains the singularity that occurs due to divergence of the left-hand sum if . (In (86) and (87), is permitted by a fundamental theorem of integral calculus.) Similarly, operating with on (102) at leads to the identification

(which can alternatively be obtained by writing the infinite sum as a product). A second application of on (102), again at using (106), leads to the following transformation of sums:

This transformation can be further reduced by applying an integral representation given in [1, Section ], leading to

Correcting a misprinted expression given in ([38, Equation ], [10, 11], Equation ) which should read

followed by a change of variables, eventually yields the representation

Substituting (108) and (110) into (107) followed by some simplification finally gives

a result that appears to be new.

5.3. Another Interpretation

These expressions for the split representation can be interpreted differently. For the moment, let , and insert the contour integral representation [35, Equation ], for into the converging series representation (99), noting that contributions from infinity vanish, giving

where the contour is defined by the real parameter . With this caveat, the series in (112) converges, allowing the integration and summation to be interchanged, leading to the identification

The contour may now be deformed to enclose the singularity at , translated to the right to pick up residues of at   and the residue of at . After evaluation, each of the residues so obtained cancels one of the terms in the series expression (90) for leaving (after a change of integration variables)

the standard Cauchy representation of the left-hand side, valid for all , where the contour encloses the simple pole at .

6. Integration by Parts

Integration by parts applied to previous results yields other representations.

From (17), we obtain (known to the Maple computer code, but only in the form of a Mellin transform)

and from (64), we find

as well as the following intriguing result (discovered by the Maple computer code):

This result has the interesting property that it is the only integral representation of which I am aware in which the independent variable does not appear as an exponent. Many variations of (117) can be obtained through the use of any of the transformations of the hypergeometric function, for example,

which choice happens to restore the variable to its usual role as an exponent.

7. Conversion to Integral Representations

From (79), identify the product in the form of an integral representation from one of the primary definitions of ([13, Equation ]) and interchange the series and sum. The sums can now be explicitly evaluated, leaving an integral representation valid over an important range of :

Each of the terms in (119) corresponds to known integrals ([13, Equations and ]), and if the identification is taken to completion, (119) reduces to the identity with the help of (13). Other useful representations are immediately available by evaluating the integrals in (119) corresponding to pairs of terms in the numerator, giving

8. The Case

Several of the results obtained in previous sections reduce to helpful representations when .

8.1. Finite Series Representations

From (79), we find, for even values of the argument,

from (83), we find

and, based on (80), we find [39] a similar, but independent, result:

three of an infinite number of such recursive relationships [40]. The latter two may be identified with known results by reversing the sums, giving

thought to be new,

equivalent to [11, Equation ], and

equivalent to [11, Equation ].

8.2. Novel Series Representations

By adding and subtracting the first terms in the series representation of the hypergeometric function in (91), we find ([36, Chapter 9]), for the case   (),

and for the case

Substituting (128) or (129) in (88), (91), and (101) gives series representations for and , respectively, for which I find no record in the literature, with particular reference to works involving Barnes double Gamma function (e.g., [30]). For example, employing (128) in the case , we obtain what appears to be a new representation (or the evaluation of a new sum):

The series (130) (compare with ([28, Equation (42.1.1)])) is absolutely convergent by Gauss' test for arbitrary values of and reduces to an identity in the limiting case .

8.3. Connection with Multiple Gamma Function

From Section 5.2 with , we have, after some simplification,

Comparison of the previous infinite series with [10, Equation ] using, identifies

where is Barnes double Gamma function. From [10, Section 1.3], unnumbered equation following 26, we also find

thereby recovering (130) after representing the arctan function in (130) as a logarithm (with ).

9. The Critical Strip

In (58) and (59) with let

Then, after adding and subtracting, we find a composition of symmetric and antisymmetric integrals about the critical line :

and simultaneously

Let

For on the critical line , both (137) and (138) can be simultaneously satisfied when both and only if

a true relationship that can be verified by direct computation. Set in (137) and (138) and find

Equation (141) can be used to obtain a relationship between the real and imaginary components of . Let

Then, by breaking and into their real and imaginary parts, (141) reduces to

where

in terms of the real and imaginary parts of . This is a known result [41] that depends only on the functional equation (13) (See the Appendix for further discussion on this point). In [41], it was shown that the numerator and denominator on the right-hand side of (11) can never vanish simultaneously, so this result defines the half-zeros (only one of or vanishes) (and usually brackets the full-zeros) of according to whether the numerator or denominator vanishes. This was studied in [41]. The full-zeros () of occur when the following condition

is simultaneously satisfied for some value(s) of . In that case, the defining equation (143) becomes

where the derivatives are taken with respect to the variable , and (147) is evaluated at . Many solutions to (146) are known [42], so there is no doubt that these two functions can simultaneously vanish at certain values of . (A proof that this cannot occur in (137) and (138) when is left as an exercise for the reader.)

A further interesting representation can be obtained inside the critical strip by setting in (9) and separating into its real and imaginary components:

where

In analogy to (137) and (138), the representations (148) and (149) include a term that vanishes on the critical line , both reducing to the equivalent of (26) in that case. (I am speculating here that such forms contain information about the distribution and/or existence of zeros of and hence inside the critical strip.) The integrands in both representations vanish as as   and are finite at ; most of the numerical contribution to the integrals comes from the region . Numerical evaluation in the range can be acclerated by writing

and extracting a factor outside the integral in that range. It remains to be shown how the remaining integral conspires to cancel this factor in the asymptotic range . Finally, (148) is invariant and (149) changes sign under the transformations and , demonstrating that is self-conjugate.

10. Comments

A number of related results that are not easily categorized and which either do not appear in the reference literature or appear incorrectly should be noted.

Comparison of (49) and (54) suggests the identification . Such sums and integrals have been studied [30, 43] for the case in terms of Barnes double Gamma function and Clausen's function defined by

with the (tacit) restriction that . That is not the case here. Thus straightforward application of that analysis will sometimes lead to incorrect results. For example [30, Equation ], gives (with )

further ([43, Equation (13)]) identifying

To allow for the possibility that , this should instead read

which is valid for all in terms of Bernoulli polynomials and polylogarithm functions. However, similar results are given in the equivalent, general form in [20, Equation ]. Interestingly, both the Maple and Mathematica computer codes somehow (neither [44] nor references contained therein, both of which study such integrals, list the computer results, which are likely based on [20, Equation ]) manage to evaluate the integral in (153) in terms similar to (155) for a variety of values of provided that the user restricts , although the right-hand side provides the analytic continuation of the left when that restriction is lifted. This has application in the evaluation of according to the method of Section 8.3, where, using the methods of [10, Chapter 3], we identify

a generalization of integrals studied in [44]. From the computer evaluation of the integral, (156) eventually yields

as a new addition to the lists found in [10, Section ], and [11, Sections and ], and a generalization of (97) when .

Appendix

In [41], an attempt was made to show that the functional equation (13) and a minimal number of analytic properties of might suffice to show that when . This was motivated by a comment attributed to H. Hamburger ([8, page 50]) to the effect that the functional equation for perhaps characterizes it completely. (An unequivocal equivalent claim can also be found in [15]. As demonstrated by the counterexample given here, and in [45], this claim is false.) The purported demonstration contradicts a result of Gauthier and Zeron [45], who show that infinitely many functions exist, arbitrarily close to , that satisfy (13) and the same analytic properties that are invoked in [41], but which vanish when . (To quote Prof. Gauthier: “We prove the existence of functions approximating the Riemann zeta-function, satisfying the Riemann functional equation and violating the analogue of the Riemann hypothesis.” (private communication).)

In fact, an example of such a function is easily found. Let

where is the complex conjugate of , is arbitrary complex, and , given by

is a constant chosen such that . Then

satisfies analyticity conditions of [45] (which include the functional equation (13)). Additionally, has zeros at the zeros of as well as complex zeros at and and a pole at with residue equal to unity, where .

Thus the last few paragraphs of Section 2 of [41] beginning with the words “There are two cases where fails…” cannot be valid. However, the remainder of that paper, particularly those sections dealing with the properties of as referenced here in Section 9, are valid and correct. I am grateful to Professor Gauthier for discussions on this topic.

Acknowledgments

The author wishes to thank Vinicius Anghel and Larry Glasser for commenting on a draft copy of this paper. Leslie M. Saunders obituary may be found in the journal Physics Today, issue of Dec. 1972, page 63, http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v25/i12/p63_s2?bypassSSO=1.

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