Order-one growth of the Riemann xi function 2026-10-14
The pole-subtracted theta integral for the completed zeta function bounds the Riemann xi function on by a polynomial in times . The Stirling formula gives logarithmic growth . On the positive real axis, the definition and give . Thus its order of an entire function is exactly one.
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 28 2 i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
With the normalization of the preceding completion, the super-completion is the Riemann xi functionThe pole-subtracted theta integral for the completed zeta function gives the particularly useful expressionIt proves directly that is an entire function, with and . Here “integral function” means entire, not integer-valued.
To prove the order-one growth of the Riemann xi function, put . For , the exponentially decreasing theta integrand bounds both and byMultiplication by the quadratic factor in and the Stirling formula imply . Hence the order of an entire function is at most one. On the positive real axis, , and the defining formula and Stirling formula giveThis lower bound proves that the order is at least one. Consequently is entire of order exactly one, generally not of finite exponential type.
Its zeros are precisely the Nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function, counted with multiplicity. The values at zero and one are nonzero; the Gamma function has no zeros; and the completed functional equation together with the Euler product shows that there are no further completed zeros outside the closed critical strip. By Hadamard factorization for entire functions of order one,The genus-one factors give , and the logarithmic derivative converges locally normally away from the zeros:Differentiate the defining product of , the gamma factor, and . Rearranging proves the global partial-fraction expansion of the zeta logarithmic derivative:The summands must be kept together: each is for large , whereas separating the two complex reciprocal sums need not preserve absolute convergence. The gamma term accounts for the trivial zeros as well as cancellation at zero.