The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics Advance Access published online on March 17, 2009
The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, doi:10.1093/qmath/hap004
AN INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION OF MULTIPLE HURWITZ–LERCH ZETA FUNCTIONS AND GENERALIZED MULTIPLE BERNOULLI NUMBERS

Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–8602, Japan
Corresponding author. E-mail: komori{at}math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Received 1 August 2008;
revised 10 December 2008
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A surface integral representation of a multiple generalization of the Hurwitz–Lerch zeta function is given, which is a direct analogue of the well-known contour integral representation of the Riemann zeta function of Hankel's type. From this integral representation, we derive a detailed description of the set of its possible singularities. In addition, we present two formulae for special values of the zeta function at non-positive integers in terms of generalizations of Bernoulli numbers. These results are refinements of previously known ones.