No CrossRef data available.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2022
We consider two sequences $a(n)$ and
$b(n)$,
$1\leq n<\infty $, generated by Dirichlet series
$$ \begin{align*}\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{a(n)}{\lambda_n^{s}}\qquad\text{and}\qquad \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{b(n)}{\mu_n^{s}},\end{align*} $$
satisfying a familiar functional equation involving the gamma function $\Gamma (s)$. Two general identities are established. The first involves the modified Bessel function
$K_{\mu }(z)$, and can be thought of as a ‘modular’ or ‘theta’ relation wherein modified Bessel functions, instead of exponential functions, appear. Appearing in the second identity are
$K_{\mu }(z)$, the Bessel functions of imaginary argument
$I_{\mu }(z)$, and ordinary hypergeometric functions
${_2F_1}(a,b;c;z)$. Although certain special cases appear in the literature, the general identities are new. The arithmetical functions appearing in the identities include Ramanujan’s arithmetical function
$\tau (n)$, the number of representations of n as a sum of k squares
$r_k(n)$, and primitive Dirichlet characters
$\chi (n)$.
The first and second authors sincerely thank the MHRD SPARC project SPARC/2018-2019/P567/SL for their financial support. The first author is also supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation. The third author is a postdoctoral fellow at IIT Gandhinagar supported, in part, by the grant CRG/2020/002367.