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Past exam of the analytic number theory and elliptic curves course of the University of Oxford 2007 A 2 Solution by
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For , write , multiply by and sum. Interchanging a finite sum with the integral gives the Abel summation formulaApply it with and . If , the boundary term is and converges. Therefore the Dirichlet series converges andChoose with for . For ,The Weierstrass M-test proves uniform convergence of on this entire open half-plane. For fixed , the same estimate with its actual gives . Each is an entire function, since its integral has bounded positive range and can be differentiated in under an integrable bound on each compact set. Thus the locally uniform sum is holomorphic, and so is its product with . This gives holomorphy from polynomial growth of arithmetic partial sums and proves holomorphy of for . Multiplication by the unbounded factor does not assert uniform convergence of on a whole unbounded half-plane; local uniform convergence is what the holomorphy argument needs.
With and the hypothetical bound, is holomorphic for . On , the Euler product gives . The identity theorem extends this as a meromorphic identity throughout the connected half-plane . Hence has no zeros in that half-plane: at any zero, the product with the holomorphic would be zero. The pole at one is not a zero; has a compensating zero there.
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