The Lerch transcendent from the point of view of Fourier analysis

We obtain some well-known expansions for the Lerch transcendent and the Hurwitz zeta function using elementary Fourier analytic methods. These Fourier series can be used to analytically continue the functions and prove the classical functional equations, which arise from the relations satisfied by t...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Navas, L.M. [0000-0002-5742-8679], Ruiz, F.J., Varona, J.L. [0000-0002-2023-9946]
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de La Rioja (UR)
Repositorio:RIUR. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Rioja
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.dialnet.es:doc/5bbc69e4b750603269e82344
Acceso en línea:https://investigacion.unirioja.es/documentos/5bbc69e4b750603269e82344
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bernoulli polynomials
Conjugate Fourier series
Fourier series
Hurwitz zeta functions
Lerch transcendent function
Descripción
Sumario:We obtain some well-known expansions for the Lerch transcendent and the Hurwitz zeta function using elementary Fourier analytic methods. These Fourier series can be used to analytically continue the functions and prove the classical functional equations, which arise from the relations satisfied by the Fourier conjugate and flat Fourier series. In particular, the functional equation for the Riemann zeta function can be obtained in this way without contour integrals. The conjugate series for special values of the parameters yields analogous results for the Bernoulli and Apostol-Bernoulli polynomials. Finally, we give some consequences derived from the Fourier series. © 2015 Elsevier Inc.