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Y OICHI M OTOHASHI
A relation between the Riemann zeta-function and the hyperbolic laplacian
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Scienze 4
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the Riemann Zeta-Function and the Hyperbolic Laplacian
YOICHI MOTOHASHI
1. - Introduction
The aim of the
present
paper is to show ameromorphic
continuation of the functionto the entire
complex plane, where ~
stands for the Riemann zeta-function. It will turn out inparticular
that there areinfinitely
manysimple poles
on thestraight
and thatthey
are contained in the set of thecomplex
zeros of the
Selberg
zeta-function for the full modular group. As anapplication
of this fact we shall prove a new omega result for
E2(T),
the remainder term in theasymptotic
formula for the fourth power mean of the Riemann zeta-function.We start our discussion with a brief survey of results on
E2(T),
since itsstudy
was ouroriginal
motivation. Thus wehave, by definition,
with a certain
polynomial P4
ofdegree
four. We alsoput
where T and A are
arbitrary positive parameters.
In our former paper[8]
anexplicit
formula forI(T,A)
has beenproved,
whichyields,
among otherthings,
Pervenuto alla Redazione il 13 Dicembre 1993 e in forma definitiva il 30 Dicembre 1994.
with an
explicitly computable
c > 0.Although
this has somesignificance,
it isfar from what is
generally
believed to be true about the size ofE2(T):
It isconjectured
thatwould hold for any fixed c > 0. This must be
extremely
difficult to prove, for it wouldimply
adeep
estimate for the Riemann zeta-function on the critical line. But it should be stressed that the mean square estimatewhich
supports
theconjecture (1.2),
has beenproved
in ourjoint
paper[4]
withIvic as another consequence of the
explicit
formula forI(T, A).
On the other
hand,
as for the lower bound ofE2(T)
a result that appears to beessentially
the bestpossible
hasalready
been established. In fact an assertion in[5] (see
also[3,
Theorem5.7])
states thatWe maintain that
(1.4)
is moresignificant
than the upper bound( 1.1 ).
Thereason for this is
explained
in our survey articles[9] [12];
here we sayonly
that
(1.4)
seems to reflect ahighly peculiar
nature of the Riemann zeta-function that should be discussed with the Riemannhypothesis
in thebackground.
In
general, proofs
of omega resultsrequire representations
of the relevant number theoreticalquantities
that areexplicit
in a certain sense. Forinstance,
without theexplicit
formula for theTchebychev
function in thetheory
ofprime
numbers or the Voronoi formula for the sum of the number of divisors it would not be
possible
to discus~ the omegaproperties
in the distribution ofprimes
and divisors. This
applies
to(1.4)
as well.For,
itsproof depends
on theexplicit
formula for
I(T, A).
Our
proof
of(1.4) contains, however,
a drawback. It does not seem to be able toyield
a two-sided omega result forE2(T)
that isnaturally
inferred from theexperience
in thetheory
of the mean square of the Riemann zeta-function. Areason of this
shortcoming
lies in the fact that in[5]
weemployed
the process oftaking
amultiple
average of theexplicit
formula forI(T, A)
withrespect
to theparameter
T. This made it difficult for us to handle theproblem
oflarge
deviations of the size of
E2(T)
whiletracing
itssign changes.
Now,
themeromorphic
continuation ofZ2(~) yields
acomparatively
directapproach
to theproblem,
and we are able to prove thefollowing improvement
upon
(1.4):
THEOREM 1.
This confirms the
conjecture expressed by
severalpeople, especially by
Ivic[3, (5.183)].
We think that there is apossibility
that our newargument might yield
even
with an
explicit k(T)
that increasesmonotonically
toinfinity
with T. But this willdefinitely require
somedeep
facts about the distribution of discreteeigenvalues
of the
hyperbolic Laplacian
that are not availablecurrently.
The
proof
of(1.5)
is achievedby
thecombination
of a version of Landau’s lemma(Lemma
1below)
and anexplicit configuration
of non-trivialpoles
ofZ2(~).
The latteris,
in turn,implied by
aspectral decomposition
ofZ2(~).
Moreprecisely,
we have:THEOREM 2. The
function Z2(~)
ismeromorphic
over the entirecomplex plane.
Inparticular,
in thehalf-plane »1(ç)
> 0 it has apole of
orderfive at
== 1 andinfinitely
manysimple poles of
the r..i; all otherpoles
are
of
theform
Herek2 + 1 4
is in the discrete spectrumof
thehyperbolic
4
Laplacian
with respect tothe full
modular group, and p is acomplex
zeroof
the Riemann
zeta-function.
It should be noted that this assertion
depends
on anon-vanishing
theorem[7,
Theorem
3]
aboutspecial
values ofautomorphic L-functions,
as it is to be shown in ourexplicit computation
p p of the residuesat § +
xi in the final section. We2
remark also that this theorem makes clearer the relation between the Riemann zeta-function and the
hyperbolic Laplacian
than the theorem of[8]
does.The
proof
of Theorem 1 isimmediate,
if once we prove Theorem 2.For,
we have:
LEMMA 1. Let
g(x)
be a continuousfunction
such thatconverges
absolutely for
aç.
Let us suppose thatG(~)
admits ananalytic
continuation to a domain
including
thehalf
line[Q, oo),
whilehaving
asimple pole
at u + ib,S ~ 0,
with the residue 1. Then we haveThis is a version of Landau’s
lemma;
for theproof
see e.g.,[1].
Theorem 2implies
that we may setg(x)
=E2(x);
hence(1.5)
follows.It is
appropriate
to remark here that there exists a close resemblance between theproblems
onE2(T)
and those on thebinary
additive divisorproblem
where d is the divisor function and a > 0. A
comprehensive
account on bothD(N, a)
and its dual version can be found in our recent work[10]. There,
forexample,
ananalog
of(1.4)
isproved. But, recently Szydlo [14] replaced
itwith a two sided omega result. While our work
[10]
relied on Kuznetsov’s traceformulas, Szydlo
took theapproach
that was devisedby Takhtadjan
andVinogradov [13] (cf.,
Jutila[6]). They
considered aspectral decomposition
ofthe additive divisor zeta-function
which
corresponds
to ourZ2(~). Szydlo
observed that thisspectral decomposition
could be combined with Landau’s lemma to
produce
a two sided omega result forD(N, a).
Ourpresent
paper is a result of the stimulus that wegot
from a talk ofSzydlo
at theMeigaku
Seminar inTokyo. However,
ourargument
isessentially
a variant of our former work[8],
andindependent
fromTakhtadjan
and
Vinogradov’s
work. It appears to us that theirargument
may noteasily
beextended so as to be able to cope with the fourth power moment of the Riemann zeta-function.
Also,
we stress that our argumentdeveloped
in[10]
is able toyield
aspectral decomposition
ofDa(0
that contains moreexplicit
details thanTakhtadjan
andVinogradov’s
work could show. Infact,
we needonly
to set=
xL(x
+ in Theorem 3 of[10],
where L is to besufficiently large.
Although
thisweight
does not have acompact support
that isrequired there,
itis easy to see that the
argument
of[10]
isapplicable
to it as well.It should also be remarked that in
[8,
p.182] (cf. [9] [12])
we gavea tentative
explanation why
there is a connection between the Riemann zeta-function and thehyperbolic Laplacian, though
we formulated it in terms ofgeneric
four-fold sums overintegers
since the fourth power meanproblem
is reduced to such a situation. There a four-fold sum is
regarded
as a sumover 2 x 2
integral matrices,
and the summands are classifiedaccording
to thevalue of
determinant,
which amounts to a naturalextension,
to four-fold sums, of Atkinson’s dissectionargument [2]
for double sums. Then weappeal
toHecke’s classification of
integral
matrices ofgiven
determinant withrespect
to the full modular group. In this way a four-fold sum can be taken for a sum ofsums over the full modular group; to each of the inner-sums we may
apply
thespectral decomposition,
and the outer-sum may beanalyzed
with thetheory
ofHecke
operators.
The above
reveals,
to some extent, a structure behind our Theorem 2. On the other hand itmight give
theimpression
thatonly
thefourth,
but nohigher,
power mean of the Riemann zeta-function should have to do with the
spectral analysis
of the full modular group. But this is not correct. For, we haverecently
shown in
[11]
that theeighth
power meanadmits an
expression
in terms of theobjects pertaining
toautomorphic
formsover the full modular group.
Acknowledgement.
The author isgrateful
to Profs. A.Ivi6,
M. Jutila and the referees for their kind comments andsuggestions.
2. -
Spectral decomposition
Now we shall show a
meromorphic
continuation ofZ2 ( ~)
to theregion
?(0
> 0; further continuation may be left out, since it isjust
a matter oftechnicality.
To this end we consider the
expression
where both
~(~)
and D are assumed to bepositive
andlarge,
at leastinitially.
Obviously
wehave,
for any D > 0,where
h(~, D)
is a functionregular
forR(~)
> 0. Also wehave, by partial integration,
where p5 is a
polynomial
of fifthdegree
with constant coefficients. Theassertion
(1.3) implies
that the lastintegral
isuniformly convergent for ?($)
>4.
Thuswe see that is
regular > _ 1
2except
for thepole at
= 1 of orderfive, though
theargument
below willyield
the same in a different way.To continue
Z2 (~) beyond
the line!R(Ç) =
-, we need aspectral decomposition
ofY(~, D).
One way to achieve it is toincorporate [8, Theorem]
into the relation ,
Here an obvious modification of the statement of
[8, Theorem]
is needed because there theparameters
T and A are tosatisfy
a constraint that is not fulfilledby
the
present supposition.
But we shall not take thisapproach. For,
we think thatthe
spectral decomposition
ofY(~, D)
is to be understood in a moregeneral
context.
Thus we introduce
which may be termed the
biquadratic
zeta-transform of the functionf.
A carefulanalysis
of theargument developed
in sections 2 to 5 of[8]
will reveal that it works verbatim for22(f)
aswell, provided f
satisfies thefollowing
conditions:Co : f (t)
is even.Cl :
There exists alarge positive
constant L such thatf
isregular
andO (( 1 +
in the horizontalstrip
L.The first condition is introduced
only
for the sake ofsimplicity.
As for thesecond,
we note that it ispossible
to work with rather small values of L, but thestringent
conditiongiven
above seems to be sufficient for most purposes.To state the
spectral decomposition
ofZ2 ( f )
we have to introducesome notions.
Thus,
we first definebriefly
the standardsymbols
fromthe
theory
ofautomorphic forms;
for the details see[8]:
We denoteby
+ 1; ~ ~
>0 - 1 2 ...
U{ 0 }
the discretespectrum
of thehyperbolic Laplacian acting
on the space of allnon-holomorphic automorphic
functions withrespect
to the full modular group. Let pj be the Maass wave form attached to theeigenvalue Aj
so that(pj)
forms an orthonormal base of the spacespanned by
all cuspforms,
and each pj is aneigen-function
of every Hecke operatorT(n) (n
>1).
The latter means that there exists a certain real numbertj(n)
such that
T(n)pj
= With the first Fourier coefficient pj of pj weput
aj = The Hecke L-seriesHj(s)
attached to CPj is definedby
This is
actually
an entirefunction,
and ofpolynomial
order withrespect
to Itj if s is bounded.As for the
holomorphic
cuspforms,
we letj iy(k)l
standfor the orthonormal
base, consisting
ofeigen
functions of all Hecke operatorsTk(n),
of the Peterssonunitary
space ofholomorphic
cusp forms ofweight
2k with
respect
to the full modular group. This means, inparticular,
that wehave with a certain real number
tj,k(n).
With the first Fourier coefficients of weput
aj,k = As beforewe define the Hecke L-series
Hj,k(s) by
Again
this isentire,
and in any fixed verticalstrip
it is ofpolynomial
orderwith
respect
to theweight, uniformly
for the indexj,
if s is bounded.Further we need to define a transform of the function
f
that satisfies the conditionsCo
andC1 .
Thus we put, forR(q) 1
conditions
Co
andCi.
Thus weput,
for!R(’1) 2
where F is the
hypergeometric function, and f
the Fourier transform off :
We then
put,
for real r,Now,
thespectral decomposition
ofZ2(f )
runs asLEMMA 2.
If f satisfies
the conditionsCo
andCl,
then we havewhere q4 is a
polynomial of
orderfour,
andh(t)
isregular
and0((l
+ItB)-1 (log(It +2))2)
in thestrip 1/2;
moreover both areindependent of f.
2
Here we should remark that the condition C,
implies
the existence of a c > 0 such thatfor
large positive
r. SinceHj ( ~ ). 1 are of polynomial
order and
aj, aj,k are constant on average, the sums and the
integrals
in(2.3)
are allabsolutely convergent.
To show the estimates(2.4) briefly,
weput, 1,
By shifting
thepath vertically
andapplying Stirling’s
formula it can be seenthat
f*(s) is,
infact, regular
andfor L/2,
whereL is as in
Cl.
Then wehave,
instead of(2.2),
where the
path separates
p thepoles
P 1 of r1
2 + - ns and r(s)
to theright
andthe
left, respectively. If 9K?y) > -- then
thepath
canobviously
be drawn. The 2assertion
(2.4)
is now a result of anapplication
to(2.5)
the above estimate off * (s)
andStirling’s
formula.3. -
Specialization
We may now return to the function
Y (~, D).
Thus we setf (t)
to bewhere the parameter D is omitted on the left side for the sake of notational
simplicity. Obviously
this satisfies the conditionsCo
andCl, provided
both Dand
R(I)
arelarge, though
the conditionon ~
will be relaxed later. We stress thatthroughout
this section D is assumed to belarge,
and all statements beloware
possibly dependent
on it.Now,
thespectral decomposition (2.3) gives,
instead of(2.1)
where the last three terms stand for the contributions of the continuous
spectrum,
the discretespectrum,
and theholomorphic
cuspforms, respectively.
Toget
ananalytic
continuation of thisdecomposition
we need to prove thefollowing
assertion on the
analytic
property of as a function of twocomplex
variables q and
~:
LEMMA 3. Let us assume either that 7y
is in a fixed
verticalstrip
where> -1
or that q is on thehalf
line[1, oo). Then, for
any boundedC
withR(n) .
-g,
8 or that n is on the half linefor
any with> -1
theunction
8
is
regular
andprovided
D issufficiently large.
We consider first the case where q is in a vertical
strip;
thus we mayassume that there is a
positive
constant c such thatand
We note that for x > 0
where
Kv
is the K-Bessel function of order v.Then, invoking
Euler’sintegral representation
ofhypergeometric functions,
we havewhere
and
The
asymptotic property
of the K-Bessel functionsimplies
thatA(x, ~)
is of
rapid decay
when x tends toinfinity.
On the other hand the behavior ofA(x, ç)
when x is close to 0 can be inferred from thedefining
relationwhere
More
precisely,
wehave,
for each p > 0,Also we have
uniformly
for x > 0. Then theexpression
yields
ananalytic
continuation of to the domain definedby
theconditions
(3.3)
and(3.4).
To show the estimate
(3.2)
in the present case, we turn the line ofintegration
in(3.10) through
a smallpositive angle
0. Thus we haveThe estimate
(3.8)
holds for~)
too; and also wehave,
instead of(3.9),
We then divide the
integral
in(3.11)
into two partscorresponding
to 0 x 1and the rest;
accordingly
weget
adecomposition
off~).
If 0 issmall,
thefirst
part
isand the second
part
isThis
obviously
ends theproof
of(3.2)
in the case where(3.3)
and(3.4)
hold.Next,
we consider the casewhere q
> 1, and the condition(3.4)
holds.Here the
regularity
of is easy tocheck;
thus let us prove thedecay
property
(3.2) only.
To this end we note that we nowhave,
for x > 0,which can be shown
by computing
the maximum of theintegrand.
We insertthis into
(3.10).
Thepart corresponding
to 0 x 1 iseasily
seen to be0(2-’1).
The
remaining part
iswhich is much smaller than
r¡-D/2.
This ends theproof
of Lemma 3.4. -
Analytic
continuationWe are now
ready
to finish theproof
of Theorem 2. To this end we note first that we haveLemma 3
implies immediately
that this sum isregular
for?($) > -.
On theother hand the contribution of the discrete
spectrum
is8*
where
is the result of
changing
thesign
of all K,j inYd’ (~, D).
ThenLemma 3
implies
P that d(03BE,D )
isregular
g(03BE)> except
for thesimple
8 P
poles at - 1 1 - ik where x runs over the set of the distinct elements of
2
2)
such that
In our former paper
[7]
we have shown that there areinfinitely
many r. thatsatisfy
thisnon-vanishing
condition. ThusYd(~, D)
has indeedinfinitely
manysimple poles
on thestraight
lineR(03BE) = 4.
4Let us
compute
the residueR(x)
ofYd(~, D)
at thepole
We have
By (3.10)
we haveBut we
have, by (3.5)-(3.7),
provided R(03BE) 1/4.
2 Hence wehave,
after a rearrangement,Next,
we consider the contribution of the continuousspectrum.
We havewhere the
path
is thestraight
lineR(r)
= 0; note that here it is assumed thatR(£)
issufficiently large.
Let P be anarbitrary positive
number such thaton the lines
R(s) =
-3:2P, and also1~(ç)1 ( P/4.
We then move thepath
in the lastintegral
to the one that is the result ofconnecting
thepoints i P,
i oo withstraight
lines. Theresulting integral
isregular
4 4 g g ~ g
by
virtue of Lemma 3. In thisprocedure
we encounterpoles
_
8 Y p p
at r
= 2
2 and( 1 - p)/2,
where p runs overcomplex
zeros of the zeta- functionsuch that
I
2P. As a functionof
the residue at r= I
isregular
for2
R(03BE) > ,
8except
for thepoint
= 0, which is at most asimple pole. Further,
1
the residue at r =
( 1 - ) p / 2
isregular for R(03BE)>-
- 8except
for thepole
at03BE = p/4.
Since P isarbitrary,
this proves thatD)
admits ameromorphic
continuation at least to the
domain R(£)
>8Collecting
the abovediscussion,
we find thatZ2(03BE)
ismeromorphic
atleast
for
> 0,having simple poles possibly ixj (j
=1 > 2 > ... )
while allother
poles
in thisregion
are of the formp/2 (~(p)
=0).
This ends theproof
of Theorem 2.
CONCLUDING REMARK. If
1t2 + ~, It
>0, belongs
to the discretespectrum,
then we have 4
where
T = 1 -
and is as above.Thus, providing that Ay
is asimple
eigenvalue,
g we may y recover the value ofj 2
from those of the Riemann zeta-function.Actually
we are able to extend this fact toHj (s) , 1 !R(s)
1,by considering,
instead ofZ2(~),
theexpression
In fact it has a
simple pole at ~ =
1 - s -ixj
with the residue involv-ing Hj 1 2 (1/2)HJ(s)in the place of Hj in the place
of (1/2)3 providing
an obvious non-vani-
shing
condition. Thus it ispossible
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to the Eisensteinseries,
the above factsuggests
that theremight
bea way to
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College of Science and Technology
Nihon University Surugadai, Tokyo-101 Japan