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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2023
An explicit transformation for the series $\sum \limits _{n=1}^{\infty }\displaystyle \frac {\log (n)}{e^{ny}-1}$, or equivalently,
$\sum \limits _{n=1}^{\infty }d(n)\log (n)e^{-ny}$ for Re
$(y)>0$, which takes y to
$1/y$, is obtained for the first time. This series transforms into a series containing the derivative of
$R(z)$, a function studied by Christopher Deninger while obtaining an analog of the famous Chowla–Selberg formula for real quadratic fields. In the course of obtaining the transformation, new important properties of
$\psi _1(z)$ (the derivative of
$R(z)$) are needed as is a new representation for the second derivative of the two-variable Mittag-Leffler function
$E_{2, b}(z)$ evaluated at
$b=1$, all of which may seem quite unexpected at first glance. Our transformation readily gives the complete asymptotic expansion of
$\sum \limits _{n=1}^{\infty }\displaystyle \frac {\log (n)}{e^{ny}-1}$ as
$y\to 0$ which was also not known before. An application of the latter is that it gives the asymptotic expansion of
$ \displaystyle \int _{0}^{\infty }\zeta \left (\frac {1}{2}-it\right )\zeta '\left (\frac {1}{2}+it\right )e^{-\delta t}\, dt$ as
$\delta \to 0$.
Dedicated to Christopher Deninger on account of his 65th birthday
Part of this work was done when the first author was a National Postdoctoral Fellow (NPDF) at IIT Gandhinagar funded by the grant PDF/2021/001224, and later, when he was an INSPIRE faculty at IISER Kolkata supported by the DST grant DST/INSPIRE/04/2021/002753. The second author’s research is funded by the Swarnajayanti Fellowship grant SB/SJF/2021-22/08. The third author is supported by CSIR SPM Fellowship under the grant number SPM-06/1031(0281)/2018-EMR-I. All of the authors sincerely thank the respective funding agencies for their support.