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Is it possible to expand the logarithm of the zeta function

$$ \log\zeta (s)= a_{0}+a_{1}s^{-1}+a_{2}s^{-2}+.... ,$$

with coefficients $ a_{n} = \frac{1}{2\pi i}\oint dz \frac{\log\zeta(z)}{z^{n+1}} $ ?

My idea is to improve the Gram series based on the solution of the integral equation

$$ \log\zeta (s)=s\int_{0}^{\infty}dt \frac{\pi(e^{t})}{e^{st}-1}. $$

Of course I am almost sure that the coefficients $ a_{n} $ must depend on the nontrivial zeros of Riemann zeta $ \zeta (\rho)=0 $.

Jose Garcia
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  • Do you really mean $a_1^{-s}$ ... or $a_1 s^{-1}$, which would be a Laurent series. – GEdgar Aug 19 '13 at 14:21
  • Your expansion should be valid where? And your integral $\oint$ is around what contour? – GEdgar Aug 19 '13 at 14:24
  • mistake corrected, the idea is to expand the logarithm of riemann zeta $ log\zeta (s) $ as a Z-transform , see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_transform – Jose Garcia Aug 19 '13 at 17:43
  • This question and its answers might be relevant: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/71095/logarithmic-derivative-of-riemann-zeta-function. – marty cohen Aug 19 '13 at 19:32
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    My guess: $\log \zeta(s)$ is not regular at infinity, and thus does not have an expansion of this form. – GEdgar Aug 19 '13 at 21:33
  • perhaps if we could prove that (approximately) $ log\zeta (s) \sim -log(1-1/s) $ then we would have the expansion $log\zeta (s) \approx \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{ns^{n}}$ – Jose Garcia Aug 29 '13 at 13:46

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