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In my answer to a question on this site I googled for a reference and found this. The answers of the user reuns of the latter linked question goes to great length to show that $$\lim_{x\to 0^+}f(x)=L(1,\chi)$$ where $$f(x ) =\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\chi(n)}{n} e^{-nx}.$$ But since the series of $f$ converges uniformly on $[0,\infty)$ this is trivial. Also the statement $$"\Gamma(s)L(s+1,\chi)-f(0) \Gamma(s) = \int_0^\infty (f(x)-f(0) e^{-x})x^{s-1}dx$$ converges and is analytic for $\Re(s) > -1$" needs something even stronger? Something like that the derivative of $f(x)$ is bounded on $(0,\epsilon)$. But to show this one would first show the uniform convergence of $f$... So the problem is reduced to a (slightly) harder statement which is not proven??? Thinking about it more the first half of the answer seems like a distasteful joke (on the expense of the one who posed the question)...

So my question is if I am missing something or if the linked answer is rather very confused and terrible?

Why the downvote? Please elaborate if I am missing something!

  • Why do you think the series converges uniformly? – Kangyeon Moon Aug 30 '24 at 19:19
  • @KangyeonMoon By partial summation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%27s_summation_formula). But that's not really the question, the question is if I am missing something. As I see it the other answer reduces the problem to a harder problem? –  Aug 30 '24 at 19:22

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