Analytic continuation of Dirichlet L series via nonstandard limits

Let a1,a2,a3,a_1,a_2,a_3,\ldots be a sequence of complex numbers, and let {bn}\{b_n\} be its partial sum sequence, assumed to be bounded. Choose a hyperreal number system and define limbn\lim b_n as in Definition 1.5: when it exists, it is the common standard part of cNc_N for every infinite integer NN divisible by any finite integer, where {cn}\{c_n\} is the arithmetic average sequence of {bn}\{b_n\}. Analytic-continuation conjecture. If limbn\lim b_n exists under this definition, and both its existence and its value are independent of the choice of hyperreal number system, then the Dirichlet LL series

n=1anns\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{a_n}{n^s}

can be analytically continued to s=0s=0, with the single value given by limbn\lim b_n. The conjecture proposes a nonstandard-analysis criterion for assigning the value of a potentially divergent Dirichlet series at s=0s=0, extending the agreement with analytic continuation known in the special cases discussed earlier in the paper. The general assertion is presented as a technical conjecture, and no resolution is supplied here.

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An Huang, “On Twisted Virasoro Operators and Number Theory”, arXiv:0909.0795 (2010).

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