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N. Levinson has shown that at least $1/3$-rd of the non-trivial zeros of $\zeta(s)$ are indeed on $\Re(s)=1/2$, [[#References|[a5]]]. | N. Levinson has shown that at least $1/3$-rd of the non-trivial zeros of $\zeta(s)$ are indeed on $\Re(s)=1/2$, [[#References|[a5]]]. | ||
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The zeta-function in algebraic geometry is an analytic function of a complex variable $s$ describing the arithmetic of algebraic varieties over finite fields and schemes of finite type over $\text{Spec}\mathbb{Z}$. If $X$ is such a scheme, $\overline{X}$ is the set of its closed points and $N(x)$ denotes the number of elements of the residue field $k(x)$ of a point $x\in\overline{X}$, then the zeta-function $\zeta_X(s)$ is given by the Euler product | The zeta-function in algebraic geometry is an analytic function of a complex variable $s$ describing the arithmetic of algebraic varieties over finite fields and schemes of finite type over $\text{Spec}\mathbb{Z}$. If $X$ is such a scheme, $\overline{X}$ is the set of its closed points and $N(x)$ denotes the number of elements of the residue field $k(x)$ of a point $x\in\overline{X}$, then the zeta-function $\zeta_X(s)$ is given by the Euler product | ||
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From 1970 on, the studies of $p$-adic zeta-functions of algebraic number fields [[#References|[14]]] stimulated a similar approach to the zeta-functions of schemes — mainly elliptic curves. The problems involved, which greatly resemble those discussed above, are reviewed in [[#References|[9]]]. The zeta-function of an elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$ is closely connected with the one-dimensional [[Formal group|formal group]] of the curve, and they completely define each other [[#References|[16]]]. | From 1970 on, the studies of $p$-adic zeta-functions of algebraic number fields [[#References|[14]]] stimulated a similar approach to the zeta-functions of schemes — mainly elliptic curves. The problems involved, which greatly resemble those discussed above, are reviewed in [[#References|[9]]]. The zeta-function of an elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$ is closely connected with the one-dimensional [[Formal group|formal group]] of the curve, and they completely define each other [[#References|[16]]]. | ||
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The conjectures of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer have been generalized by S. Bloch and P. Beilinson to conjectures relating the ranks of Chow groups obtained from algebraic cycles with orders of poles of zeta-functions. See [[#References|[a6]]]–[[#References|[a8]]]. | The conjectures of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer have been generalized by S. Bloch and P. Beilinson to conjectures relating the ranks of Chow groups obtained from algebraic cycles with orders of poles of zeta-functions. See [[#References|[a6]]]–[[#References|[a8]]]. | ||
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$\zeta$-function
Zeta-functions in number theory are functions belonging to a class of analytic functions of a complex variable, comprising Riemann's zeta-function, its generalizations and analogues. Zeta-functions and their generalizations in the form of $L$-functions (cf. Dirichlet $L$-function) form the basis of modern analytic number theory. In addition to Riemann's zeta-function one also distinguishes the generalized zeta-function $\zeta(s,a)$, the Dedekind zeta-function, the congruence zeta-function, etc.
Riemann's zeta-function is defined by the Dirichlet series
\begin{equation}\label{sum} \zeta(s)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{1}{n^s},\quad s=\sigma+it,\end{equation}
which converges absolutely and uniformly in any bounded domain of the complex $s$-plane for which $\sigma\geq1+\delta$, $\delta>0$. If $\sigma>1$, a valid representation is the Euler product
\begin{equation}\label{prod} \zeta(s)=\prod_p\left(1-\frac{1}{p^s}\right)^{-1},\end{equation}
where $p$ runs through all prime numbers.
The identity of the series \ref{sum} and the product \ref{prod} is one of the fundamental properties of $\zeta(s)$. It makes it possible to obtain numerous relations connecting $\zeta(s)$ with important number-theoretic functions. E.g., if $\sigma>1$,
$$ \ln \zeta(s)=s\int_2^\infty\frac{\pi(x)}{x(x^s-1)}\,\mathrm{d}x,$$
$$-\frac{\zeta'(s)}{\zeta(s)}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{\Lambda(n)}{n^s},$$
$$\frac{1}{\zeta(s)}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{\mu(n)}{n^s},\quad \zeta^2(s)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{\tau(n)}{n^s},$$
$$\frac{\zeta^2(s)}{\zeta(2s)}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{2^{\nu(n)}}{n^s},\quad\frac{\zeta(2s)}{\zeta(s)}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{\lambda(n)}{n^s}.$$
Here $\pi(x)$ is the number of primes $\leq x$, $\Lambda(n)$ is the (von) Mangoldt function, $\mu(n)$ is the Möbius function, $\tau(n)$ is the number divisors of the number $n$, $\nu(n)$ is the number of different prime factors of $n$, and $\lambda(n)$ is the Liouville function. This accounts for the important role played by $\zeta(s)$ in number theory. As a function of a real variable, $\zeta(s)$ was introduced in 1737 by L. Euler [1], who proved that it could be expanded into the product \ref{prod}. The function was subsequently studied by P.G.L. Dirichlet and also, with extraordinary success, by P.L. Chebyshev [2] in the context of the problem of the distribution of prime numbers. However, the most deeply intrinsic properties of $\zeta(s)$ were discovered later, as a result of studying it as a function of a complex variable. This was first accomplished in 1876 by B. Riemann [3], who demonstrated the following assertions.
a) $\zeta(s)$ permits analytic continuation to the whole complex $s$-plane, in the form
\begin{equation}\label{cont} \pi^{-s/2}\Gamma\left(\frac{s}{2}\right)\zeta(s)=\frac{1}{s(s-1)}+\int_1^\infty\left( x^{-(1-s/2)}+x^{-(1-(1-s)/2)}\right)\theta(x)\,\mathrm{d}x,\end{equation}
where $\Gamma(\omega)$ is the gamma-function and
$$\theta(x)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \exp(-\pi n^2x).$$
b) $\zeta(s)$ is a regular function for all values of $s$ except for $s=1$, where it has a simple pole with residue one, and it satisfies the functional equation
\begin{equation}\label{func}\pi^{-s/2}\Gamma\left(\frac{s}{2}\right)\zeta(s)=\pi^{-(1-s)/2}\Gamma\left(\frac{1-s}{2}\right)\zeta(1-s).\end{equation}
This equation is known as Riemann's functional equation. For the function
$$ \xi(s)=\frac{s(s-1)}{2}\pi^{-s/2}\Gamma\left(\frac{s}{2}\right)\zeta(s),$$
introduced by Riemann for studying the zeta-function and now known as Riemann's $\xi$-function, this equation assumes the form
$$ \xi(s)=\xi(1-s),$$
while if one puts
$$\Xi(t)=\xi\left(\frac{1}{2}+it\right),$$
it assumes the form
$$\Xi(t)=\Xi(-t).$$
This last function $\Xi$ is distinguished by the fact that it is an even entire function which is real for real $t$, and its zeros on the real axis correspond to the zeros of $\zeta(s)$ on the straight line $\sigma=1/2$.
c) Since $\zeta(s)\neq0$ for $\sigma>1$, by \ref{func} this function has only simple zeros at the points $s=-2\nu$, $\nu=1,2,\ldots,$ in the half-plane $\sigma<0$. These zeros are known as the trivial zeros of $\zeta(s)$. Also, $\zeta(s)\neq0$ for $0<s<1$. Thus, all non-trivial zeros of $\zeta(s)$ are complex numbers, lying symmetric with respect to both the real axis $t=0$ and the vertical line $\sigma=1/2$ and situated inside the strip $0\leq\sigma\leq1$. This strip is known as the critical strip.
Riemann also stated the following hypotheses.
1) The number $N(T)$ of zeros of $\zeta(s)$ in the rectangle $0\leq\sigma\leq1$, $0<t<T$ can be expressed by the formula
$$N(T)=\frac{1}{2\pi}T\ln T-\frac{1+\ln 2\pi}{2\pi}T+O(\ln T).$$
2) Let $\rho$ run through the non-trivial zeros of $\zeta(s)$. Then the series $\sum\lvert\rho\rvert^{-2}$ is convergent, while the series $\sum\lvert\rho\rvert^{-1}$ is divergent.
3) The function $\xi(s)$ can be represented in the form
$$ ae^{bs}\prod_\rho \left(1-\frac{s}{\rho}\right)e^{s/\rho}.$$
4) Let
$$ P(x)=\sum_{n\leq x}\frac{\Lambda(n)}{\ln n},$$
$$ P_0(x)=\frac{1}{2}[P(x+0)+P(x-0)].$$
Then, for $x\geq1$,
$$ P_0(x)=\mathrm{li} x-\sum_\rho\mathrm{li}x^\rho+\int_x^\infty\frac{\mathrm{d}u}{(u^2-1)\ln u}-\ln 2,$$
where $\mathrm{li} x$ is the integral logarithm:
$$\mathrm{li} e^w=\int_{-\infty+iv}^{u+iv}\frac{e^z}{z}\,\mathrm{d}z,\quad w=u+iv,\quad v<0\text{ or }v>0.$$
5) All non-trivial zeros of $\zeta(s)$ lie on the straight line $\sigma=1/2$.
Subsequent to Riemann, the problem on the value distribution and, in particular, the zero distribution of the zeta-function became very widely known and was studied by a large number of workers. Riemann's hypotheses 2 and 3 were proved by J. Hadamard in 1893, and it was proved that, in hypothesis 3, $a=1/2$ and $b=\ln 2+(1/2)\ln\pi-1-C/2$, where $C$ is the Euler constant; hypotheses 1 and 4 were established in 1894 by H. von Mangoldt, who also obtained the following important analogue of (5) for prime numbers. If
$$\Psi(x)=\sum_{n\leq x}\Lambda(n),\quad \Psi_0(x)=\frac{1}{2}[\Psi(x+0)-\Psi(x-0)],$$
then, for $x\geq1$,
$$ \Psi_0(x)=x-\sum_\rho\frac{x^\rho}{\rho}-\frac{\zeta'(0)}{\zeta(0)}-\frac{1}{2}\ln\left(1-\frac{1}{x^2}\right),$$
where $\rho=\beta+i\gamma$ runs through the non-trivial zeros of $\zeta(s)$, while the symbol $\sum_\rho x^\rho/\rho$ denotes the limit of the sum $\sum_{\lvert \gamma\rvert\leq T}x^\rho/\rho$ as $T\to\infty$. This formula shows, similarly to formula (5), that the problem of the distribution of primes in the natural number series is closely connected with the location of the non-trivial zeros of the function $\zeta(s)$.
The last hypothesis (hypothesis 5) has not yet (1993) been proved or verified. This is the famous Riemann hypothesis on the zeros of the zeta-function.
The function $\zeta(s)$ is unambiguously defined by its functional equation. More exactly, any function which can be represented by an ordinary Dirichlet series and which satisfies equation (4) coincides, under fairly broad conditions with respect to its regularity, with $\zeta(s)$, up to a constant factor [4].
If
$$ \chi(s)=\pi^{s-1/2}\frac{\Gamma(1-s/2)}{\Gamma(s/2)}$$
and $h>0$ is constant, the approximate functional equation
\begin{equation}\label{approx} \zeta(s)=\sum_{n\leq x}\frac{1}{n^s}+\chi(s)\sum_{n\leq y}\frac{1}{n^{1-s}}+O(x^{-\sigma})+O(\lvert t\rvert^{1/2-\sigma}y^{\sigma-1}),\end{equation}
obtained in 1920 by G.H. Hardy and J.E. Littlewood [4], is valid for $0<\sigma<1$, $x>h$, $y>h$, $2\pi xy=\lvert t\rvert$. This equation is important in the modern theory of the zeta-function and its applications. There exist general methods by which such results may be obtained not only for the class of zeta-functions, but in general for Dirichlet functions with a Riemann-type functional equation \ref{func}. The most complete result in this direction has been shown in [5]; in the case of $\zeta(s)$ it leads, for any $\tau$ with $\lvert \arg \tau\rvert<\pi/2$, to the relation
$$\pi^{-s/2}\Gamma\left(\frac{s}{2}\right)\zeta(s)=\pi^{-s/2}\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{\Gamma(s/2,\pi n^2\tau)}{n^s}+\pi^{-(1-s)/2}\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{\Gamma((1-s)/2,\pi n^2/\tau)}{n^{1-s}}-\frac{\tau^{(s-1)/2}}{1-s}-\frac{\tau^{s/2}}{s},$$
where $\Gamma(z,x)$ is the incomplete gamma-function. For
$$\tau=\Delta^2\exp\left[ i\left(\frac{\pi}{2}-\frac{1}{\lvert t\rvert}\right)\mathrm{sign} t\right],\quad \Delta>0,$$
one obtains the approximate equation \ref{approx}; for $\tau=1$ this relation becomes identical with the initial formula \ref{func}.
The principal problem in the theory of the zeta-function is the problem of the location of its non-trivial zeros and, in general, of its values within the range $1/2\leq \sigma\leq 1$. The main directions of research conducted on the zeta-function include: the determination of the widest possible domain to the left of the straight line $\sigma=1$ where $\zeta(s)\neq0$; the problem of the order and of the average values of the zeta-function in the critical strip; estimates of the number of zeros of the zeta-function on the straight line $\sigma=1/2$ and outside it, etc.
The first non-trivial result on the boundary for the zeros of the zeta-function was obtained in 1896 by Ch.J. de la Vallée-Poussin, who showed that there exists a constant $A>0$ such that
\begin{equation}\label{zerofree}\zeta(s)\neq0\qquad\text{ if }\sigma\geq1-\frac{A}{\ln^\alpha(\lvert t\rvert+2)}\text{ with }\alpha\geq1.\end{equation}
Other related approximations are connected with the approximate equation \ref{approx} and with the development of methods for estimating trigonometric sums.
The most powerful method for making estimates of this kind must be credited to I.M. Vinogradov (cf. Vinogradov method). The latest (to 1978) bound on the boundary of the zero-free domain for the zeta-function was obtained by Vinogradov in 1958 [7]. It is of the form \ref{zerofree} with $\alpha>2/3$. The formula
$$\pi(x)=\mathrm{li}x+O\left(xe^{-B\ln^{3/5}x}\right)$$
is the corresponding statement for prime numbers. There exists a certain connection between the growth of the modulus of the function $\zeta(s)$ and the absence of zeros in a neighbourhood of the straight line $\sigma=1$. Thus, \ref{zerofree} with $\alpha>2/3$ is the result of the estimates
$$ \zeta(1+it)=O\left(\ln^{2/3}\lvert t\rvert\right),\qquad\frac{1}{\zeta(1+it)}=O\left(\ln^{2/3}\lvert t\rvert\right),\quad \lvert t\rvert>2.$$
It is known, on the other hand [4], that
$$ \overline{\lim}_{t\to \infty}\frac{\lvert \zeta(1+it)\rvert}{\ln\ln t}\geq e^C,\quad \overline{\lim}_{t\to\infty}\frac{\lvert \zeta(1+it)\rvert^{-1}}{\ln\ln t}\geq\frac{6}{\pi^2}e^C,$$
and, if Riemann's hypothesis is valid, these bounds should not exceed $2e^C$ and $(12/\pi^2)e^C$, respectively.
The order of the zeta-function in the critical strip is the greatest lower bound $\eta(\sigma)$ of the numbers $\nu$ such that $\zeta(\sigma+it)=O(\lvert t\rvert^\nu)$. If $\sigma>1$, $\eta(\sigma)=0$, and if $\sigma<0$, then $\eta(\sigma)=(1/2)-\sigma$. The exact values of the function $\eta(\sigma)$ for $0\leq\sigma\leq 1$ are unknown. According to the simplest assumption (the Lindelöf hypothesis)
$$ \eta(\sigma)=\frac{1}{2}-\sigma\text{ if }\sigma<\frac{1}{2}\quad\text{ and }\quad\eta(\sigma)=0\text{ if }\sigma>\frac{1}{2}.$$
This is the equivalent to the statement that
$$ \zeta\left(\frac{1}{2}+it\right)=O(\lvert t\rvert^{\epsilon})\quad\text{ for any }\epsilon>0.$$
If $\sigma>1/2$, the estimate $\zeta(\sigma+it)=O(\lvert t\rvert^{(1-\sigma)/2})$ is valid.
The most recent known estimate of $\zeta(s)$ on the straight line $\sigma=1/2$ [4] deviates strongly from the expected estimate (8); it has the form
$$\zeta\left(\frac{1}{2}+it\right)=O(\lvert t\rvert^{\epsilon+15/32})$$
The problem on the average value of the zeta-function consists in determining the properties of the function
$$\frac{1}{T}\int_1^T\lvert \zeta(\sigma+it)\rvert^{2k}\,\mathrm{d}t$$
as $T\to\infty$ for any given $\sigma$ and $k=1,2,\ldots$. The results have applications in the study of the zeros of the zeta-function, and in number theory directly.
It has been proved [4] that
$$\frac{1}{T}\int_1^T\lvert \zeta(\sigma+it)\rvert^{2}\,\mathrm{d}t=\ln T+2C-1-\ln 2\pi+O\left(\frac{\ln T}{\sqrt{T}}\right),$$
$$\frac{1}{T}\int_1^T\lvert \zeta(\sigma+it)\rvert^{4}\,\mathrm{d}t=\frac{\ln^4T}{2\pi^2}+O(\ln^3T).$$
If $\sigma>1/2$, [4],
$$\lim_{T\to\infty}\frac{1}{T}\int_1^T\lvert \zeta(\sigma+it)\rvert^{2}\,\mathrm{d}t=\zeta(2\sigma)$$
$$\lim_{T\to\infty}\frac{1}{T}\int_1^T\lvert \zeta(\sigma+it)\rvert^{4}\,\mathrm{d}t=\frac{\zeta^4(2\sigma)}{\zeta(4\sigma)}$$
For $k>2$, all that is known is that if $\sigma>1-1/k$,
$$\lim_{T\to\infty}\frac{1}{T}\int_1^T\lvert \zeta(\sigma+it)\rvert^{2k}\,\mathrm{d}t=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{\tau_k^2(n)}{n^{2\sigma}},$$
where $\tau_k(n)$ is the number of multiplicative representations of $n$ in the form of $k$ positive integers, and that the asymptotic relation
$$\frac{1}{T}\int_1^T\lvert \zeta(\sigma+it)\rvert^{2k}\,\mathrm{d}t\sim \sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{\tau_k^2(n)}{n^{2\sigma}}$$
is the equivalent of Lindelöf's hypothesis for $\sigma>1/2$.
An important part in the theory of the zeta-function is played by the problem of estimating the function $N(\sigma,T)$ which denotes the number of zeros $\beta+i\gamma$ of $\zeta(s)$ for $\beta>\sigma$, $0<\gamma\leq T$. Modern estimates of $N(\sigma,T)$ are based on convexity theorems of the average values of analytic functions, applied to the function
$$f_X(s)=\zeta(s)\sum_{n\leq X}\frac{\mu(n)}{n^s}-1.$$
If, for some $X=X(\sigma,T)$, $T^{1-l(\sigma)}\leq X\leq T^A$,
$$\int_T^{2T}\lvert f_X(s)\rvert^2\,\mathrm{d}t=O(T^{l(\sigma)}\ln^mT)$$
as $T\to\infty$, uniformly for $\sigma\geq\alpha$, where $l(\sigma)$ is a positive non-increasing function with bounded derivative and $m\geq0$ is a constant, then
$$N(\sigma,T)=O(T^{l(\sigma)}\ln^{m+1}T)$$
uniformly for $\sigma\geq\alpha+1/\ln T$.
It is also known that if, for $r_1\leq 3/2$,
$$\zeta\left(\frac{1}{2}+it\right)+O(t^r\ln^{r_1}t),$$
then, uniformly for $1/2\leq\sigma\leq 1$,
$$N(\sigma,T)=O(T^{2(1+2r)(1-\sigma)}\ln^5T).$$
These two assumptions made it possible to obtain the following density theorems on the zeros of the zeta-function:
$$N(\sigma,T)=O(T^{3(1-\sigma)/(2-\sigma)}\ln^5T)$$
for $1/2\leq\sigma\leq1$, and
$$N(\sigma,T)=O(T^{3(1-\sigma)/(3\sigma-1)}\ln^{44}T)$$
for $3/4\leq\sigma\leq1$.
The zeros of the zeta-function on the straight line $\sigma=1/2$.
According to the Riemann hypothesis, all non-trivial zeros of the zeta-function lie on the straight line $\sigma=1/2$. The fact that this straight line contains infinitely many zeros was first demonstrated in 1914 by Hardy [4] on the base of Ramanujan's formula:
$$\int_0^\infty\frac{\Xi(t)}{t^2+1/2}\cos xt\,\mathrm{d}t=\frac{\pi}{2}\left[ e^{x/2}-e^{-x/2}\theta(e^{-2x})\right].$$
The latest result is to be credited to A. Selberg (1942) [4]: The number $N_0(T)$ of zeros of $\zeta(s)$ of the form $1/2+it$ satisfies the inequality
$$N_0(T)>AT\ln T,\quad A>0.$$
This means that the number of zeros of the zeta-function on the straight line $\sigma=1/2$ has the same order of increase as the number of all non-trivial zeros:
$$\frac{1}{2\pi}T\ln T.$$
For the zeros of the zeta-function on this straight line, a number of other results are also known. The approximate functional equation actually makes it possible to compute (to a certain degree of accuracy) the values in which the zeta-function is zero closest to the real axis. With the aid of this method, a computer may be employed to find the zeros of $\zeta(s)$ in the rectangle $0\leq\sigma\leq 1$, $0\leq t\leq 6\cdot 10^6$. Their number is $15\cdot 10^6$, and they all lie on the straight line $\sigma=1/2$. The ordinates of the first six zero-points, accurate to within the second digit to the right of the decimal point, are 14.13; 21.02; 25.01; 30.42; 32.93; and 37.58.
In general, the distance between contiguous zeros of $\zeta(s)$ has been estimated in Littlewood's theorem (1924): For any sufficiently large $T$ the function $\zeta(s)$ has a zero point $\beta+i\gamma$ such that
$$\lvert \gamma-T\rvert<\frac{A}{\ln\ln\ln T}.$$
The generalized zeta-function is defined, for $0<a<1$, by the series
$$\zeta(s,a)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty(n+a)^{-s}$$
For $a=1$ it becomes identical with Riemann's zeta-function. The analytic continuation to the entire plane is given by the formula
$$\zeta(s,a)=\frac{e^{-\pi is}\Gamma(1-s)}{2\pi i}\int_L\frac{z^{s-1}e^{-az}}{1-e^{-z}}\,\mathrm{d}z,$$
where the integral is taken over a contour $L$ which is a path from infinity along the upper boundary of a section of the positive real axis up to some given $0<r<2\pi$, then along the circle of radius $r$ counterclockwise, and again to infinity along the lower boundary of the section. The function $\zeta(s,a)$ is regular everywhere except at the point $s=1$, at which it has a simple pole with residue one. It plays an important part in the theory of Dirichlet $L$-functions [9], [10].
Dedekind's zeta-function is the analogue of Riemann's zeta-function for algebraic number fields, and was introduced by R. Dedekind [11].
Let $k$ be an algebraic number field of degree $n=r_1+2r_2>1$, where $r_1$ is the number of real fields and $r_2$ is the number of complex-conjugated pairs of fields in $k$; further, let $\Delta$ be the discriminant, $h$ the number of divisor classes, and $R$ the regulator of the field $k$, and let $g$ be the number of roots of unity contained in $k$.
Dedekind's zeta-function $\zeta_k(s)$ of the field $k$ is the defined by the series
$$\zeta_k(s)=\sum_{\mathfrak{A}}\frac{1}{N^s_{\mathfrak{A}}},$$
where $\mathfrak{A}$ runs through all integral non-zero divisors of $k$ and $N_{\mathfrak{A}}$ is the norm of the divisor $\mathfrak{A}$. This series converges absolutely and uniformly for $\sigma\geq1+\delta$, $\delta>0$, defining an analytic function which is regular in the half-plane $\sigma>1$.
If $\sigma>1$, then
$$\zeta_k(s)=\sum_{m=1}^\infty\frac{f(m)}{m^s},$$
where $f(m)$ is the number of integral divisors of $k$ with norm $m$; $f(m)\leq\tau_n(m)$, where $\tau_n(m)$ is the number of multiplicative representations of $m$ by $n$ natural factors.
If $\sigma>1$, Euler's identity
$$\zeta_k(s)=\prod_{\mathfrak{P}}\left(1-\frac{1}{N^s_{\mathfrak{P}}}\right)^{-1},$$
holds, where $\mathfrak{P}$ runs through all prime divisors of $k$.
Main properties of Dedekind's zeta-function.
Cf. [11].
1) $\zeta_k(s)$ is regular in the entire complex plane except at the point $s=1$, at which it has a simple pole with residue
$$\frac{2^{r_1+r_2}\pi^{r_2}hR}{g\sqrt{\Delta}}$$
2) $\zeta_k(s)$ satisfies the functional equation
$$\xi_k(s)=\xi_k(1-s),$$
where
$$\xi_k(s)=\left(\frac{\lvert\Delta\rvert}{4^{r_2}\pi^n}\right)^s\Gamma^{r_1}\left(\frac{s}{2}\right)\Gamma^{r_2}(s)\zeta_k(s).$$
3) If $r=r_1+r_2-1>0$, the function $\zeta_k(s)$ has a zero of order $r$ at the point $s=0$; $\zeta_k(0)\neq0$ if $r=0$; at the points $s=-2\nu$, $\nu=1,2,\ldots,$ Dedekind's zeta-function $\zeta_k(s)$ has zeros of order $r+1$; at the points $s=-2\nu-1$ for $r_2>0$ it has zeros of order $r_2$, while for $r_2=0$ it is non-zero. These are the trivial zeros of the function $\zeta_k(s)$.
4) All other zeros of $\zeta_k(s)$ lie in the critical strip $0\leq\sigma\leq1$.
The basic hypothesis is that all non-trivial zeros of $\zeta_k(s)$ lie on the straight line $\sigma=1/2$. It has been proved that $\zeta_k(s)$ has no zeros on the straight line $\sigma=1$. Moreover, there exists an absolute positive constant $A$, as well as a constant $\lambda$ depending on the parameters of $k$, with the following property:
$$\zeta_k(s)\neq0\quad\text{ if }\sigma\geq 1-\frac{A}{n\ln \lvert T\rvert},\quad\lvert t\rvert>\lambda.$$
In general, if the parameters of $k$ are given, many results analogous to those for Riemann's zeta-function apply to $\zeta_k(s)$. However, in the general case the theory of Dedekind's zeta-function is more complicated, since it also comprises the theory of Dirichlet $L$-functions. Thus, it is not yet (1978) known if Dedekind's zeta-functions have real zeros between 0 and 1. The exact dependence between Dedekind's zeta-functions and $L$-series of a rational field has the following form. Let $k^*$ be the minimal Galois field containing $k$; let $Q$ be the Galois group of $k^*$, $h$ the class number of $Q$ and $\chi_i$ the prime characters of $Q$, $1\leq i\leq h$. Then
$$\zeta_k(s)=\zeta(s)\prod_{i=2}^hL^{c_i}(s;\chi_i,k^*),$$
where $\zeta(s)$ is Riemann's zeta-function, $L$ are Artin's $L$-series and $c_i=c_i(k)$ are positive integers determined by the properties of the relative group of the field $k^*$. In particular, if $k$ is a cyclotomic extension, then $k^*=k$, $h=\phi(n)$, $c_i=1$, and Artin's $L$-series become ordinary Dirichlet $L$-series.
Dedekind's zeta-functions of a divisor class $H_j$ of the field $k$, denoted by $\zeta_k(s;H_j)$, are considered in parallel with Dedekind's zeta-function $\zeta_k(s)$. These functions are defined by the same series as $\zeta_k(s)$, but $\mathfrak{A}$ runs not through all, but only through the integral divisors belonging to the given class $H_j$. The properties of the functions $\zeta_k(s;H_j)$ resemble those of $\zeta_k(s)$. The following formula is valid:
$$\zeta_k(s)=\sum_{j=1}^h\zeta_k(s;H_j).$$
Dedekind's zeta-functions are the basis of the modern analytic theory of divisors of algebraic number fields. There they play the role played by Riemann's zeta-function in the theory of numbers of the rational field.
The congruence zeta-function or the Artin–Schmidt zeta-function (see Zeta-function in algebraic geometry, below) is the analogue of Dedekind's zeta-function for fields of algebraic functions in a single variable and with a finite field of constants.
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