Conceptual

Kronecker Limit Formulas for the Mordell-Tornheim Zeta Function

The Mordell-Tornheim zeta function is a multiple Dirichlet series in several complex arguments, and its Kronecker-limit-type formulas describe the singular and constant parts of its Laurent expansion as one argument approaches a pole. Students learn how such formulas locate the poles and their orders and how a single deformation of this zeta function unifies many classical modular relations - those of Herglotz, Ramanujan, Guinand and Zagier - together with series evaluations via the Herglotz-Zagier function and a family of mixed functional equations.