For a primitive nonprincipal Dirichlet character, the theta Mellin integral makes this an entire function satisfying . The gamma poles cancel the trivial zeros of a Dirichlet L-function. For the principal Dirichlet character whose conductor of a Dirichlet character is one the completion is meromorphic, with poles at zero and one.
Composing a hypothetical conformal equivalence with a Cayley transform would give a nonconstant bounded entire function, contradicting the Liouville theorem.
For , the two standard affine charts and their intersection form an acyclic cover for the sheaves of holomorphic forms. Their Čech cohomology gives and , with all other groups for zero. For the top-form sheaf, the transition removes every Laurent series power except from the first cohomology quotient; its coefficient may be an arbitrary entire function on the affine factor.
If two nonzero entire functions have identical zeros and orders, their quotient extends to a nowhere-zero entire function. Its logarithmic derivative has a primitive on the simply connected plane, producing a holomorphic logarithm and the displayed relation. Any two choices differ by one constant integer multiple of . On a multiply connected domain the logarithm can fail to exist globally.
For an entire function , equality at a fixed holds exactly when . The coefficient is the average of . Equality in its modulus bound forces the continuous integrand to have constant modulus and argument, hence to be constant. The identity theorem then extends the monomial identity from the circle to the whole plane. The zero function and the constant case are included.
Faddeeva function 2026-10-05
The Faddeeva function is an entire function built from the complementary error function. Its integral representation for is , as normalized in NIST's integral representation. Its reflection identity is , directly from the odd function property of the error function.
A boundary trace transformed over a finite time interval using the dispersion relation of a linear partial differential equation. For integrable trace data and a polynomial dispersion function, it is an entire function of the complex spectral parameter. Its growth depends on ; multiplying by changes the integrand to the causal factor .
Functional equation of the Riemann zeta function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
The completed zeta function
is an entire function satisfying . Thus every nontrivial zero is accompanied by , , and .
An entire function of finite order factors as its canonical zero product times the exponential of a polynomial. For order at most one and nonzero value at zero, it has the form . Genus-one factors converge when . A zero-free function of this order is therefore the exponential of an affine polynomial.
Hyperbolic-sine infinite product Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-07
This infinite product converges uniformly on compact subsets of the complex plane. Pair the factors at and in the Weierstrass product for the reciprocal gamma function, and use the Gamma reflection formula together with . This gives and the displayed product. The removable value at is one. Matching zeros alone would not exclude multiplication by a nonvanishing entire function; the normalized product fixes that ambiguity.
Mellin continuation of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-07
For a nonprincipal Dirichlet character modulo , set
The numerator vanishes at , so is analytic there and exponentially decreasing as . Initially for , . This integral already extends holomorphically to . Subtracting finite Taylor polynomials near zero, as in meromorphic continuation of a Mellin transform from an asymptotic expansion, continues it with possible simple poles only at nonpositive integers. Zeros of the reciprocal Gamma function cancel these, proving that is an entire function. This does not require a primitive Dirichlet character.
For an entire function of polynomial growth and exponential type , multiply it by with a unit-mass mollifier. The product becomes rapidly decreasing in real frequency, so its inverse Fourier transform has an absolutely convergent contour integral. Shifting in a separating direction forces that smooth inverse to vanish outside . Letting tend to zero recovers a distribution supported in .
Nonconstant elliptic function has a pole Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If an elliptic function had no poles, it would be entire. It is bounded on the closure of a fundamental parallelogram, and periodicity then makes it bounded on the whole complex plane. The Liouville theorem would make it constant. Thus every nonconstant elliptic function has a pole.
Every element of a nonzero complex unital Banach algebra has a nonempty compact spectrum of an element. If the resolvent of an element existed everywhere, composing it with any bounded linear functional would give a bounded entire function tending to zero at infinity. The Liouville theorem and point separation by the Hahn-Banach theorem would force the resolvent to be zero, contradicting the inverse equation. Nonunital algebras are treated by unitization.
If an entire function is not a polynomial, then there is a point for which for every nonnegative integer . Consequently every coefficient in the Taylor series of about is nonzero.
For each , the function is not identically zero, since otherwise would be a polynomial. Its zero set is closed and has empty interior by the identity theorem, hence is a nowhere dense set. The Baire category theorem says that the complete metric space cannot be the union of these countably many zero sets.
Set and . The sets are closed, , and Baire's theorem on each interval shows that is dense. On every connected component of , compactness and the increasing cover by the show that one derivative vanishes locally with a uniform finite order, so agrees there with one polynomial.
If were nonempty, it would be closed and have no isolated points: polynomial pieces on both sides of an isolated point would have matching derivatives of every order and hence join into one polynomial piece. Applying Baire's theorem to the cover gives an interval and an index for which is nonempty and contained in . Because has no isolated points, difference quotients show that every derivative of order at least vanishes on . Each polynomial component of meeting has an endpoint in , so its degree is less than . Thus throughout , contradicting . Hence , and its sole connected component carries one polynomial.
Nonvanishing of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function at one Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
For every nonprincipal Dirichlet character, . A nonreal character is covered by Euler product positivity for L-function nonvanishing at height zero, since its squared character is nonprincipal.
For a real character, suppose . The simple zeta pole would cancel, making an entire function. Its nonnegative zeta-times-real-L coefficients satisfy and . Termwise derivatives at two give . The Taylor series of this entire function at two converges at zero. Every term there is nonnegative, and Tonelli theorem identifies its sum as
The last series diverges because all square coefficients are at least one. This contradiction proves the claim. It is the positive-coefficient mechanism behind the more general Landau theorem for a Dirichlet series with nonnegative coefficients.