►The main function treated in this chapter is the Riemann zetafunction
.
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►The main related functions are the Hurwitz zetafunction
, the dilogarithm , the polylogarithm (also known as Jonquière’s function
), Lerch’s transcendent , and the Dirichlet -functions
.
§8.22(ii) Riemann ZetaFunction and Incomplete Riemann ZetaFunction
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►See Paris and Cang (1997).
►If denotes the incomplete Riemann zetafunction defined by
…so that , then
…For further information on , including zeros and uniform asymptotic approximations, see Kölbig (1970, 1972a) and Dunster (2006).
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►For definite integrals of the Riemann zetafunction see Prudnikov et al. (1986b, §2.4), Prudnikov et al. (1992a, §3.2), and Prudnikov et al. (1992b, §3.2).
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►See Armitage (1989), Berry and Keating (1998, 1999), Keating (1993, 1999), and Sarnak (1999).
►The zetafunction arises in the calculation of the partition function of ideal quantum gases (both Bose–Einstein and Fermi–Dirac cases), and it determines the critical gas temperature and density for the Bose–Einstein condensation phase transition in a dilute gas (Lifshitz and Pitaevskiĭ (1980)).
…It has been found possible to perform such regularizations by equating the divergent sums to zetafunctions and associated functions (Elizalde (1995)).
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►Calculations relating to derivatives of and/or can be found in Apostol (1985a), Choudhury (1995), Miller and Adamchik (1998), and Yeremin et al. (1988).
►For the Hurwitz zetafunction
see Spanier and Oldham (1987, p. 653) and Coffey (2009).
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§25.18(ii) Zeros
►Most numerical calculations of the Riemann zetafunction are concerned with locating zeros of in an effort to prove or disprove the Riemann hypothesis, which states that all nontrivial zeros of lie on the critical line .
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Cody et al. (1971) gives rational approximations for
in the form of quotients of polynomials or quotients of
Chebyshev series. The ranges covered are ,
, , . Precision is
varied, with a maximum of 20S.
Antia (1993) gives minimax rational approximations for
, where is the Fermi–Dirac integral
(25.12.14), for the intervals and
, with
. For each there
are three sets of approximations, with relative maximum errors
.