Do Shintani zeta functions satisfy a functional equation? - MathOverflow most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-06-20T11:41:47Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/83251 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/83251/do-shintani-zeta-functions-satisfy-a-functional-equation Do Shintani zeta functions satisfy a functional equation? BY 2011-12-12T16:09:59Z 2012-08-27T06:54:47Z <p>Probably my questions are known or evident to the experts but I'm a bit puzzled. First of all there seem to be two kinds of zeta functions that go under the name of Shintani zeta functions. </p> <p>First, there are zeta functions $\zeta^{SS}$ associated with so called prehomogenous vector spaces going back to important work by Sato and Shintani (see the original <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1970844.pdf?acceptTC=true" rel="nofollow">article</a> or this <a href="http://books.google.de/books/about/Shintani_zeta_functions.html?id=Cf4TYjn5Hp0C&amp;redir_esc=y" rel="nofollow">book</a> by Yukie) and then, second, zeta functions $\zeta^S$ that appeared in Shintani's work on special values of Dedekind zeta functions of totally real number fields at negative integers (see Shintani's <a href="http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1978.2/Main/icm1978.2.0591.0598.ocr.pdf" rel="nofollow">article</a> or Neukirch's <a href="http://books.google.de/books/about/Algebraic_number_theory.html?id=plE3PwAACAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y" rel="nofollow">book</a> for example). </p> <p>1) I'm mainly interested in the question if it is known (or expected) if the latter zeta functions $\zeta^S$ satisfy functional equations. (From what I understand the $\zeta^{SS}$ satisfy functional equations or are expected to satisfy in case it is not proven). </p> <p>Let me just note that one can write Shintani zeta functions in the following form $$\Gamma(s)^n \zeta^S(s,z,x) = \int_0^\infty \cdots\int_0^\infty \sum_{z_1,\dots , z_n=0}^\infty e^{-\sum_{i=1}^n t_i L_i(z+x)}(t_1\cdots t_n)^{s-1} dt_1\cdots dt_n$$ where the $L_i(x)$ are linear forms, i.e. essentially we could say that we're looking at multivariable theta-like functions and Mellin transforms thereof. So the question can be rephrased in asking whether these theta-like functions occurring in the above integral satisfy a functional equation/theta inversion formula. (Note that these theta-like functions do in general not come from symplectic structures, i.e. they are not related to abelian varieties (at least as far as I see)).</p> <p>2) But next to this question I'm also extremely interested in the relationship of these two kinds of zeta functions. In which cases do the two constructions agree? Is there anything known?</p> <p>Thank you very much in advance!</p> <p>EDIT: OK, so I could speak a bit with one of the absolute authorities in this field and I learned, that </p> <p>1) one shouldn't expect functional equations for single functions $\zeta^S$ but rather for certain finite linear combinations and </p> <p>2) one shouldn't expect relations between the two notions of "zeta" functions. </p> <p>This doesn't destroy the applications I had in mind with my question but I have to rethink the question and will try to give a better and less naive version of it soon. Thank you so far very much for your helpful comments! </p> http://mathoverflow.net/questions/83251/do-shintani-zeta-functions-satisfy-a-functional-equation/105605#105605 Answer by r h for Do Shintani zeta functions satisfy a functional equation? r h 2012-08-27T06:54:47Z 2012-08-27T06:54:47Z <p>there was a talk recently in RIMS Kyota titled something like "the functional equation of the Shintani zeta function". You might try looking that up.</p>