Define the Möbius function by , for a product of distinct primes, and if a prime square divides . For , summing over square-free divisors gives , while the sum is one at .
Both Dirichlet series and converge absolutely for . Their product may therefore be regrouped by the product of the indices:
This simultaneously proves and
In particular .
Under the assumed analytic continuation, is holomorphic near when , and as . If were a zero of order , local factorization would give for sufficiently small positive . The preceding absolutely convergent bound gives instead , a contradiction. Thus . This reciprocal Dirichlet-series bound on boundary-zero multiplicity does not assert that any such boundary zero exists.