Friday, April 3, 2009

A Remarkable Theorem due to Mandelbrojt

Today I read a very beautiful theorem due to S. Mandelbrojt.

First of all, let me give some definitions, which can be understood by every student who have studied elementary mathematical analysis and complex analysis.

Definition 1

Let be an ascending sequence. the upper density of is



The step of is


Definition 2

The generalized Dirichlet series , with is given by


Lemma 1

If does not converge or diverge for all s, there exists such that converges absolutely if and it does not converge absolutely if .

is the abscissa of absolute convergence of .

Theorem due to S. Mendelbrojt

Let be a generalized dirichlet generating function with abscissa of absolute convergence being finite. For and there exists a continuous function with such that for all , has a singular point in the rectangle . One such function is
for .

Corollary

In particular, if and and is finite, then every point on the abscissa of absolute convergence is a singular point. So no analytic continuation of the series from right halfplane to left halfplane is possible.