# Workshop on Eisenstein Series, L-functions, and arithmetic, May 2022

Speaker:

Bogdan Ion

Affiliation:

University of Pittsburgh

Title:

Bernoulli operators, Dirichlet series, and analytic continuation

Abstract:

Bernoulli operators are distributions with discrete support associated to Dirichlet series (or rather to the corresponding power series). The most basic case, when the power series has a pole singularity at $z=1$ is analyzed in detail. Its main property is that it naturally acts on the vector space of analytic functions in the plane (with possible isolated singularities) that fall in the image of the Laplace-Mellin transform (for the variable in some half-plane). The action of the Bernoulli operator on the function $t^s$, provides the analytic continuation of the associated Dirichlet series and also detailed information about the location of poles, their resides, and special values. Using examples of arithmetic origin, I will attempt to illustrate what is reasonable to expect when the power series has a non-pole singularity at $z=1$, pointing to an extension of this theory to tempered distributions associated to modular forms.

Location:

Benedum G-29

May 17, 2022 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm