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It looks likeYes, the conjecture is (almost) true -- $\zeta_\theta(s)$ extends to a meromorphic function on $\mathbb{C}$ for all real quadratic irrationals $\theta$ with poles at $s=2$, $s=1$ and in the infinite set of vertical lines $\lbrace -2n+i\mathbb{R}\colon n\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge0}\rbrace$. I'm not sure about the more tentative conjecture for arbitrary algebraic numbers. Also, more simply, it will extend to a meromorphic function over $\Re(s) > 0$ whenever $\theta$ cannot be approximated too well by rationals (in particular, if $\theta$ has irrationality measure 2 which, by the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem, includes all algebraic irrationals). Conversely, if an irrational $\theta$ can be approximated too well by rationals then there will not be a meromorphic extension, which will be the case outside of a meagre subset of $\mathbb{R}$. I can give a rough proof of these statements now.

[Edit: As Pieter pointed out in the comments, my initial answer carelesselycarelessly missed out a rather important term, so was not correct. I've updated the proof sketch to deal with this term, and restricted to quadratic irrationals for the meromorphic extension. ThisThe proof is verya bit sketchy, andas I only go throughhaven't justified that we can rearrange the full details for $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ a quadratic number fieldorder of the various summations/integrals. As they are only conditionally convergent, but I think it does generalizethis would need to arbitrary quadratic irrationals inbe fleshed out to make it more rigorous but, thinking about this a similar waybit more, it looks like it all works out with no problems.]

The final summation over $k$ is more problematic. Assuming $\theta$ is a quadratic irrational, and using $\bar z$ to denote the conjugate of $z\in\mathbb{Q}(\theta)$, it can be rewritten (up to order of summation) as $$ (\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{0 < z < 1}\frac{z^{s-1}}{\bar z-z}=(\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{j=0}^\infty\sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}. $$ Here, I have substituted in $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$, and the summation is over all $z\in\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ lying in the unit interval. For each bounded region for $s$ on which we want to extend we only actually have to expand out a finite number of terms in the sum over $j$ above, up until $\Re(s)+j-1$ is positive. In that case, the remainder is of order $\bar z^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}=O(k^{-1-j})$ and has uniformly convergent sum. So, we just need to show that each term in the sum over $j$ extends to a meromorphic function. I'll nowFor the moment, I'll restrict to the case where $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ is a number fieldring. For example, $\theta=\sqrt{d}$ for squarefree $d\not\cong1$ (mod 4) or $\theta=(1+\sqrt{d})/2$ for squarefree $d\cong1$ (mod 4). I think the general quadratic case follows in a similar manner, but it gets a bit messier. Let $\eta$ be the fundamental unit of $\mathbb{Z}[\theta]$ lying in the unit interval. Then, each $z$ in the unit interval can be written uniquely as $\eta^ny$ for $y$ in $[\eta,1)$ and nonnegative integer $n$. Writing $\epsilon=\bar\eta\eta=\pm1$, the term for a fixed $j$ in the expansion above is (again, being a bit careless about order of summation), $$ \begin{array}{rl} \sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}&=\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(\bar\eta ^n\bar z)^{-j-1}(\eta^nz)^{s+j-1}\cr &=\sum_{\eta\le z\le1}\sum_{n=0}^\infty{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}\epsilon^{n(j+1)}\eta^{n(s+2j)}\cr &=\left(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j}\right)^{-1}\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}. \end{array} $$$$ \begin{array}{rl} \sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}&=\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(\bar\eta ^n\bar z)^{-j-1}(\eta^nz)^{s+j-1}\cr &=\sum_{\eta\le z\le1}\sum_{n=0}^\infty{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}\epsilon^{n(j+1)}\eta^{n(s+2j)}\cr &=\left(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j}\right)^{-1}\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}. \end{array} $$ Now that the summation has being restricted to $z\ge\eta$, the term $z^{s-j-1}$$z^{s+j-1}$ will be bounded, and the sum is guarateed to converge. To see this, substitute back $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$ and $\bar z=k(\bar\theta-\theta)+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$. The summand is of size $O(k^{-1-j})$, so the sum converges absolutely for $j\ge1$. For $j=0$ it is $(\bar\theta-\theta)^{-1}\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s-1}/k + O(k^{-2})$ for $\lbrace k\theta\rbrace\ge\eta$. As $x^{s-1}$ has finite variation over the interval $[\eta,1)$, the sum for $j=0$ also converges.

Finally, the term $(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j})^{-1}$ is meromorphic on $\mathbb{C}$ with zeros on the vertical line $-2j+i\mathbb{R}$. So, $\zeta_\theta$ does extend with poles in the claimed set.

In the argument above, it was assumed for simplicity that the module $M\equiv\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ is a number ring. The generalization to arbitrary quadratic irrationals is easy enough. The only use of the fact that $M$ is a number ring was to ensure that $\eta M\subseteq M$ and $\eta^{-1}M\subseteq M$. However, there will always exist some $r > 0$ such that $\eta^{\pm r}M\subseteq M$ and the argument above follows through unchanged with $\eta^r$ in place of $\eta$. To see that such an $r$ does exist, let $R$ be the ring of algebraic integers in $\mathbb{Q}(\theta)$, and let $a,b$ be nonzero integers with $bR\subseteq aM\subseteq R$. Then, multiplication by $\eta$ gives a permutation of the finite quotient $R/bR$, which has finite order $r > 0$. So, $\eta^{\pm r}x-x\in bR\subseteq aM$ for all $x\in R$, from which $\eta^{\pm r}aM\subseteq aM$ follows.

It looks like the conjecture is (almost) true -- $\zeta_\theta(s)$ extends to a meromorphic function on $\mathbb{C}$ for all real quadratic irrationals $\theta$ with poles at $s=2$, $s=1$ and in the infinite set of vertical lines $\lbrace -2n+i\mathbb{R}\colon n\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge0}\rbrace$. I'm not sure about the more tentative conjecture for arbitrary algebraic numbers. Also, more simply, it will extend to a meromorphic function over $\Re(s) > 0$ whenever $\theta$ cannot be approximated too well by rationals (in particular, if $\theta$ has irrationality measure 2 which, by the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem, includes all algebraic irrationals). Conversely, if an irrational $\theta$ can be approximated too well by rationals then there will not be a meromorphic extension, which will be the case outside of a meagre subset of $\mathbb{R}$.

[Edit: As Pieter pointed out in the comments, my initial answer carelessely missed out a rather important term, so was not correct. I've updated the proof sketch to deal with this term, and restricted to quadratic irrationals for the meromorphic extension. This is very sketchy, and I only go through the full details for $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ a quadratic number field, but I think it does generalize to arbitrary quadratic irrationals in a similar way.]

The final summation over $k$ is more problematic. Assuming $\theta$ is a quadratic irrational, and using $\bar z$ to denote the conjugate of $z\in\mathbb{Q}(\theta)$, it can be rewritten (up to order of summation) as $$ (\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{0 < z < 1}\frac{z^{s-1}}{\bar z-z}=(\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{j=0}^\infty\sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}. $$ Here, I have substituted in $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$, and the summation is over all $z\in\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ lying in the unit interval. For each bounded region for $s$ on which we want to extend we only actually have to expand out a finite number of terms in the sum over $j$ above, up until $\Re(s)+j-1$ is positive. In that case, the remainder is of order $\bar z^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}=O(k^{-1-j})$ and has uniformly convergent sum. So, we just need to show that each term in the sum over $j$ extends to a meromorphic function. I'll now restrict to the case where $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ is a number field. For example, $\theta=\sqrt{d}$ for squarefree $d\not\cong1$ (mod 4) or $\theta=(1+\sqrt{d})/2$ for squarefree $d\cong1$ (mod 4). I think the general quadratic case follows in a similar manner, but it gets a bit messier. Let $\eta$ be the fundamental unit of $\mathbb{Z}[\theta]$ lying in the unit interval. Then, each $z$ in the unit interval can be written uniquely as $\eta^ny$ for $y$ in $[\eta,1)$ and nonnegative integer $n$. Writing $\epsilon=\bar\eta\eta=\pm1$, the term for a fixed $j$ in the expansion above is (again, being a bit careless about order of summation), $$ \begin{array}{rl} \sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}&=\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(\bar\eta ^n\bar z)^{-j-1}(\eta^nz)^{s+j-1}\cr &=\sum_{\eta\le z\le1}\sum_{n=0}^\infty{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}\epsilon^{n(j+1)}\eta^{n(s+2j)}\cr &=\left(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j}\right)^{-1}\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}. \end{array} $$ Now that the summation has being restricted to $z\ge\eta$, the term $z^{s-j-1}$ will be bounded, and the sum is guarateed to converge. To see this, substitute back $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$ and $\bar z=k(\bar\theta-\theta)+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$. The summand is of size $O(k^{-1-j})$, so the sum converges absolutely for $j\ge1$. For $j=0$ it is $(\bar\theta-\theta)^{-1}\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s-1}/k + O(k^{-2})$ for $\lbrace k\theta\rbrace\ge\eta$. As $x^{s-1}$ has finite variation over the interval $[\eta,1)$, the sum for $j=0$ also converges.

Finally, the term $(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j})^{-1}$ is meromorphic on $\mathbb{C}$ with zeros on the vertical line $-2j+i\mathbb{R}$. So, $\zeta_\theta$ does extend with poles in the claimed set.

Yes, the conjecture is true -- $\zeta_\theta(s)$ extends to a meromorphic function on $\mathbb{C}$ for all real quadratic irrationals $\theta$ with poles at $s=2$, $s=1$ and in the infinite set of vertical lines $\lbrace -2n+i\mathbb{R}\colon n\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge0}\rbrace$. I'm not sure about the more tentative conjecture for arbitrary algebraic numbers. Also, more simply, it will extend to a meromorphic function over $\Re(s) > 0$ whenever $\theta$ cannot be approximated too well by rationals (in particular, if $\theta$ has irrationality measure 2 which, by the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem, includes all algebraic irrationals). Conversely, if an irrational $\theta$ can be approximated too well by rationals then there will not be a meromorphic extension, which will be the case outside of a meagre subset of $\mathbb{R}$. I can give a rough proof of these statements now.

[Edit: As Pieter pointed out in the comments, my initial answer carelessly missed out a rather important term, so was not correct. I've updated the proof sketch to deal with this term, and restricted to quadratic irrationals for the meromorphic extension. The proof is a bit sketchy, as I haven't justified that we can rearrange the order of the various summations/integrals. As they are only conditionally convergent, this would need to be fleshed out to make it more rigorous but, thinking about this a bit more, it looks like it all works out with no problems.]

The final summation over $k$ is more problematic. Assuming $\theta$ is a quadratic irrational, and using $\bar z$ to denote the conjugate of $z\in\mathbb{Q}(\theta)$, it can be rewritten (up to order of summation) as $$ (\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{0 < z < 1}\frac{z^{s-1}}{\bar z-z}=(\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{j=0}^\infty\sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}. $$ Here, I have substituted in $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$, and the summation is over all $z\in\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ lying in the unit interval. For each bounded region for $s$ on which we want to extend we only actually have to expand out a finite number of terms in the sum over $j$ above, up until $\Re(s)+j-1$ is positive. In that case, the remainder is of order $\bar z^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}=O(k^{-1-j})$ and has uniformly convergent sum. So, we just need to show that each term in the sum over $j$ extends to a meromorphic function. For the moment, I'll restrict to the case where $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ is a number ring. For example, $\theta=\sqrt{d}$ for squarefree $d\not\cong1$ (mod 4) or $\theta=(1+\sqrt{d})/2$ for squarefree $d\cong1$ (mod 4). Let $\eta$ be the fundamental unit of $\mathbb{Z}[\theta]$ lying in the unit interval. Then, each $z$ in the unit interval can be written uniquely as $\eta^ny$ for $y$ in $[\eta,1)$ and nonnegative integer $n$. Writing $\epsilon=\bar\eta\eta=\pm1$, the term for a fixed $j$ in the expansion above is (again, being a bit careless about order of summation), $$ \begin{array}{rl} \sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}&=\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(\bar\eta ^n\bar z)^{-j-1}(\eta^nz)^{s+j-1}\cr &=\sum_{\eta\le z\le1}\sum_{n=0}^\infty{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}\epsilon^{n(j+1)}\eta^{n(s+2j)}\cr &=\left(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j}\right)^{-1}\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}. \end{array} $$ Now that the summation has being restricted to $z\ge\eta$, the term $z^{s+j-1}$ will be bounded, and the sum is guarateed to converge. To see this, substitute back $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$ and $\bar z=k(\bar\theta-\theta)+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$. The summand is of size $O(k^{-1-j})$, so the sum converges absolutely for $j\ge1$. For $j=0$ it is $(\bar\theta-\theta)^{-1}\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s-1}/k + O(k^{-2})$ for $\lbrace k\theta\rbrace\ge\eta$. As $x^{s-1}$ has finite variation over the interval $[\eta,1)$, the sum for $j=0$ also converges.

Finally, the term $(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j})^{-1}$ is meromorphic on $\mathbb{C}$ with zeros on the vertical line $-2j+i\mathbb{R}$. So, $\zeta_\theta$ does extend with poles in the claimed set.

In the argument above, it was assumed for simplicity that the module $M\equiv\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ is a number ring. The generalization to arbitrary quadratic irrationals is easy enough. The only use of the fact that $M$ is a number ring was to ensure that $\eta M\subseteq M$ and $\eta^{-1}M\subseteq M$. However, there will always exist some $r > 0$ such that $\eta^{\pm r}M\subseteq M$ and the argument above follows through unchanged with $\eta^r$ in place of $\eta$. To see that such an $r$ does exist, let $R$ be the ring of algebraic integers in $\mathbb{Q}(\theta)$, and let $a,b$ be nonzero integers with $bR\subseteq aM\subseteq R$. Then, multiplication by $\eta$ gives a permutation of the finite quotient $R/bR$, which has finite order $r > 0$. So, $\eta^{\pm r}x-x\in bR\subseteq aM$ for all $x\in R$, from which $\eta^{\pm r}aM\subseteq aM$ follows.

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The final summation over $k$ is more problematic. Assuming $\theta$ is a quadratic irrational, and using $\bar z$ to denote the conjugate of $z\in\mathbb{Q}(\theta)$, it can be rewritten (up to order of summation) as $$ (\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{0 < z < 1}\frac{z^{s-1}}{\bar z-z}=(\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{j=0}^\infty\sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}. $$ Here, I have substituted in $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$, and the summation is over all $z\in\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ lying in the unit interval. For each bounded region for $s$ on which we want to extend. We we only actually have to expand out a finite number of terms in the sum over $j$ above, up until $\Re(s)+j-1$ is positive. In that case, the numerator of the remainder is $z^{s+j-1}=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s+j-1}$. Asof order $x^{s+j-1}$ will have finite variation over the unit interval, the remainder term will converge to an analytic function$\bar z^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}=O(k^{-1-j})$ and has uniformly convergent sum. So, we just need to show that each term in the sum over $j$ extends to a meromorphic function. I'll now restrict to the case where $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ is a number field. For example, $\theta=\sqrt{d}$ for squarefree $d\not\cong1$ (mod 4) or $\theta=(1+\sqrt{d})/2$ for squarefree $d\cong1$ (mod 4). I think the general quadratic case follows in a similar manner, but it gets a bit messier. Let $\eta$ be the fundamental unit of $\mathbb{Z}[\theta]$ lying in the unit interval. Then, each $z$ in the unit interval can be written uniquely as $\eta^ny$ for $y$ in $[\eta,1)$ and nonnegative integer $n$. Writing $\epsilon=\bar\eta\eta=\pm1$, the term for a fixed $j$ in the expansion above is (again, being a bit careless about order of summation), $$ \begin{array}{rl} \sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}&=\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(\bar\eta ^n\bar z)^{-j-1}(\eta^nz)^{s+j-1}\cr &=\sum_{\eta\le z\le1}\sum_{n=0}^\infty{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}\epsilon^{n(j+1)}\eta^{n(s+2j)}\cr &=\left(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j}\right)^{-1}\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}. \end{array} $$ Now that the summation has being restricted to $z\ge\eta$, the term $z^{s-j-1}$ will be bounded, and the sum is guarateed to converge. To see this, substitute back $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$ and $\bar z=k(\bar\theta-\theta)+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$. The summand is of size $O(k^{-1-j})$, so the sum converges absolutely for $j\ge1$. For $j=0$ it is $(\bar\theta-\theta)^{-1}\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s-1}/k + O(k^{-2})$ for $\lbrace k\theta\rbrace\ge\eta$. As $x^{s-1}$ has finite variation over the interval $[\eta,1)$, the sum for $j=0$ also converges.

The final summation over $k$ is more problematic. Assuming $\theta$ is a quadratic irrational, and using $\bar z$ to denote the conjugate of $z\in\mathbb{Q}(\theta)$, it can be rewritten (up to order of summation) as $$ (\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{0 < z < 1}\frac{z^{s-1}}{\bar z-z}=(\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{j=0}^\infty\sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}. $$ Here, I have substituted in $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$, and the summation is over all $z\in\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ lying in the unit interval. For each bounded region for $s$ on which we want to extend. We only actually have to expand out a finite number of terms in the sum over $j$ above, up until $\Re(s)+j-1$ is positive. In that case, the numerator of the remainder is $z^{s+j-1}=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s+j-1}$. As $x^{s+j-1}$ will have finite variation over the unit interval, the remainder term will converge to an analytic function. So, we just need to show that each term in the sum over $j$ extends to a meromorphic function. I'll now restrict to the case where $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ is a number field. For example, $\theta=\sqrt{d}$ for squarefree $d\not\cong1$ (mod 4) or $\theta=(1+\sqrt{d})/2$ for squarefree $d\cong1$ (mod 4). I think the general quadratic case follows in a similar manner, but it gets a bit messier. Let $\eta$ be the fundamental unit of $\mathbb{Z}[\theta]$ lying in the unit interval. Then, each $z$ in the unit interval can be written uniquely as $\eta^ny$ for $y$ in $[\eta,1)$ and nonnegative integer $n$. Writing $\epsilon=\bar\eta\eta=\pm1$, the term for a fixed $j$ in the expansion above is (again, being a bit careless about order of summation), $$ \begin{array}{rl} \sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}&=\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(\bar\eta ^n\bar z)^{-j-1}(\eta^nz)^{s+j-1}\cr &=\sum_{\eta\le z\le1}\sum_{n=0}^\infty{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}\epsilon^{n(j+1)}\eta^{n(s+2j)}\cr &=\left(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j}\right)^{-1}\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}. \end{array} $$ Now that the summation has being restricted to $z\ge\eta$, the term $z^{s-j-1}$ will be bounded, and the sum is guarateed to converge. To see this, substitute back $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$ and $\bar z=k(\bar\theta-\theta)+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$. The summand is of size $O(k^{-1-j})$, so the sum converges absolutely for $j\ge1$. For $j=0$ it is $(\bar\theta-\theta)^{-1}\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s-1}/k + O(k^{-2})$ for $\lbrace k\theta\rbrace\ge\eta$. As $x^{s-1}$ has finite variation over the interval $[\eta,1)$, the sum for $j=0$ also converges.

The final summation over $k$ is more problematic. Assuming $\theta$ is a quadratic irrational, and using $\bar z$ to denote the conjugate of $z\in\mathbb{Q}(\theta)$, it can be rewritten (up to order of summation) as $$ (\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{0 < z < 1}\frac{z^{s-1}}{\bar z-z}=(\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{j=0}^\infty\sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}. $$ Here, I have substituted in $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$, and the summation is over all $z\in\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ lying in the unit interval. For each bounded region for $s$ on which we want to extend we only actually have to expand out a finite number of terms in the sum over $j$ above, up until $\Re(s)+j-1$ is positive. In that case, the remainder is of order $\bar z^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}=O(k^{-1-j})$ and has uniformly convergent sum. So, we just need to show that each term in the sum over $j$ extends to a meromorphic function. I'll now restrict to the case where $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ is a number field. For example, $\theta=\sqrt{d}$ for squarefree $d\not\cong1$ (mod 4) or $\theta=(1+\sqrt{d})/2$ for squarefree $d\cong1$ (mod 4). I think the general quadratic case follows in a similar manner, but it gets a bit messier. Let $\eta$ be the fundamental unit of $\mathbb{Z}[\theta]$ lying in the unit interval. Then, each $z$ in the unit interval can be written uniquely as $\eta^ny$ for $y$ in $[\eta,1)$ and nonnegative integer $n$. Writing $\epsilon=\bar\eta\eta=\pm1$, the term for a fixed $j$ in the expansion above is (again, being a bit careless about order of summation), $$ \begin{array}{rl} \sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}&=\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(\bar\eta ^n\bar z)^{-j-1}(\eta^nz)^{s+j-1}\cr &=\sum_{\eta\le z\le1}\sum_{n=0}^\infty{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}\epsilon^{n(j+1)}\eta^{n(s+2j)}\cr &=\left(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j}\right)^{-1}\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}. \end{array} $$ Now that the summation has being restricted to $z\ge\eta$, the term $z^{s-j-1}$ will be bounded, and the sum is guarateed to converge. To see this, substitute back $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$ and $\bar z=k(\bar\theta-\theta)+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$. The summand is of size $O(k^{-1-j})$, so the sum converges absolutely for $j\ge1$. For $j=0$ it is $(\bar\theta-\theta)^{-1}\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s-1}/k + O(k^{-2})$ for $\lbrace k\theta\rbrace\ge\eta$. As $x^{s-1}$ has finite variation over the interval $[\eta,1)$, the sum for $j=0$ also converges.

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It looks like the tentative conjecture is (almost) true -- $\zeta_\theta(s)$ extends to a meromorphic function on $\mathbb{C}$ for all real quadratic irrationals $\theta$ with poles at $s=2$, $s=1$ and in the infinite set of vertical lines $\lbrace -2n+i\mathbb{R}\colon n\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge0}\rbrace$. I'm not sure about the more tentative conjecture for arbitrary algebraic numbers. In factAlso, more simply, it will extend to a meromorphic function over $\Re(s) > 0$ whenever $\theta$ cannot be approximated too well by rationals (in particular, if $\theta$ has irrationality measure 2 which, by the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem, includes all algebraic irrationals). Conversely, if an irrational $\theta$ can be approximated too well by rationals then there will not be a meromorphic extension, which will be the case outside of a meagre subset of $\mathbb{R}^+$$\mathbb{R}$.   

[I think[Edit: As Pieter pointed out in the following is allcomments, my initial answer carelessely missed out a rather important term, so was not correct. I've updated the proof sketch to deal with this term, and restricted to quadratic irrationals for the meromorphic extension. This is very sketchy, and I only go through the full details for $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ a quadratic number field, but I would be more confident if someone double checksthink it.. does generalize to arbitrary quadratic irrationals in a similar way.]

First, let $\lbrace x\rbrace = x - \lfloor x\rfloor$ denote the fractional part of $x$, and write $$ \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)=\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{\lbrace n\theta\rbrace-1/2}{n^s}, $$ which converges, at least, on $\Re(s) > 1$ (at the very least).

Then Then, the function $\zeta_\theta$ defined in the question is $$ \zeta_\theta(s)=\theta\zeta(s-1)-\frac12\zeta(s)-\tilde\zeta_\theta(s), $$ where $\zeta$ is the Riemann zeta function. So, at least, we have an extension to $\Re(s) > 1$. In the case where $\theta$ is rational then $\lbrace n\theta\rbrace-1/2$ is periodic in $n$, so $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ is a linear combination of Dirichlet L-functions and has a meromorphic extension to $\mathbb{C}$. Henceforth, I will only consider irrational $\theta$. Setting $F(x)=\sum_{1\le n\le x}(\lbrace n\theta\rbrace-1/2)$, the equidistribution theorem states that $F(x)/x\to0$ as $x\to\infty$. Rearranginging the expression for $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ gives $$ \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)=s\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{F(n)}{n}n^{-s}\left(\frac ns(1-(1+1/n)^{-s})\right). $$$$ \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)=\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{F(n)}{n}n^{1-s}\left(1-(1+1/n)^{-s}\right) $$ If $\lvert F(n)/n\rvert$ is bounded by some $\epsilon > 0$$\delta > 0$ then this expression will be bounded by $\epsilon\zeta(s)$$\delta\zeta(s)$ for all $\Re(s) > 1$$s > 1$. So, by equidistribution, it follows that $(s-1)\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)\to0$ as $s\to1$ (on $s > 1$). If a meromorphic extension existed in a neighbourhood of 1 then this would imply that $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ is bounded near 1. However, if $\theta=p/q$ is rational ($p,q$ coprime) then $F(x)/x\to-1/(2q)$ so, if $x$ is too closely approximated by rationals then there will be a slight bias in $F(x)/x$ and $\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)$ will not be bounded close to 1. I think that the existence of rational approximations $p_n/q_n$ with $q_n^2\log\lvert\theta-p_n/q_n\rvert\to-\infty$ is enough for this to happen.

Now, suppose that $\theta$ has irrationality measure 2no greater than some finite $\gamma$, so that there are only finitely many rational approximations $\lvert\theta-p/q\rvert\le q^{-2-\epsilon}$$\lvert\theta-p/q\rvert\le q^{-\gamma-\delta}$ for eachany $\epsilon > 0$$\delta > 0$. Equivalently, there are constantsis a constant $C_\epsilon > 0$$C_\delta > 0$ such that $n^{1+\epsilon}\lvert n\theta-m\rvert\ge C_\epsilon$$n^{\gamma-1+\delta}\lvert n\theta-m\rvert\ge C$ for all positive integer $n$ and integer $m$. Then, for each $\epsilon > 0$, the discrepancy of the set $\left\lbrace \lbrace k\theta\rbrace\colon 1\le k\le n\right\rbrace$ is bounded by $Kn^{-1+\epsilon}$$Kn^{-1/(\gamma-1)+\delta}$ (for a constant $K$, depending on $\epsilon > 0$). This means that $F(n)/n$ is bounded by $2Kn^{-1+\epsilon}$$2Kn^{-1/(\gamma-1)+\delta}$ and, hence, the expression above for $\tilde\zeta(s)$ converges for all$\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)$ has summand going to zero at rate $\Re(s) > \epsilon$$O(n^{-s-1/(\gamma-1)+\delta})$. So, $\tilde\zeta(s)$$\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)$ is an analytic function on $\Re(s) > 0$$\Re(s) > (\gamma-2)/(\gamma-1)$. ThereforeIn particular, for algebraic irrationals, $\zeta_\theta(s)$ is$\gamma=2$ and we get a meromorphic in this regionextension of $\zeta_\theta(s)$ to $\Re(s) > 0$ with simple poles at $s=2$ and $s=1$.

We canI now attempt to extend to the whole of $\mathbb{C}$ via a functional equation. Hurwitz's formula giveswhich, for $\Re(s) > 1$$\Re(s) > 0$ and irrational $x$ in the unit interval, gives $$ \begin{array}{l} &\sum_{n\ge1}e^{2\pi inx}n^{-s}=(2\pi)^{s-1}\Gamma(1-s)\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,x)+e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,1-x)\right) \end{array} $$ where $\zeta(s,x)=\sum_{n\ge1}(n+x)^{-s}$$\zeta(s,x)=\sum_{n\ge0}(n+x)^{-s}$ is the Hurwitz Zeta function. Plugging in the Fourier series $\lbrace x\rbrace=1/2+\sum_{k\not=0}(i/(2\pi k))e^{2\pi ikx}$, applying Hurwitz's formula, and being careless about when the sums converge/commute (it can be made more rigorous) gives, $$ \begin{array}{rl} \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)&=\sum_{n\ge1}\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{ie^{2\pi ikn\theta}}{2\pi kn^s}\cr &=\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{i}{2\pi k}\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{e^{2\pi in\lbrace k\theta\rbrace}}{n^s}\cr &=(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{i}{k}\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)+e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,1-\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\right)\cr &=(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{i}{k}\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)-e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\right)\cr &=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\cr &=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{n\ge1}\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}(n+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)^{s-1}. \end{array} $$ Setting $$ \begin{array}{l} &g_{n,x,s}=(1+\lbrace x\rbrace/n)^{-s}-(1+(1-\lbrace x\rbrace)/n)^{-s},\cr &G_{n,x,s}=\sum_{1\le k\le x}g_{n,k\theta,s}, \end{array} $$$$ \begin{array}{rl} \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)&=\sum_{n\ge1}\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{ie^{2\pi ink\theta}}{2\pi kn^s}\cr &=(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{i}{k}\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)+e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,1-\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\right)\cr &=(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{i}{k}\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)-e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\right)\cr &=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\cr &=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{n\ge0}\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}(n+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)^{s-1}. \end{array} $$ we haveSplit up the summation as $$ \begin{array}{rl} \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)&=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{n\ge1}\sum_{k\ge1}k^{-1}g_{n,k\theta,1-s}n^{s-1}\cr &=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{n\ge1}\sum_{k\ge1}\frac{G_{n,k,1-s}}{k(k+1)}n^{s-1}. \end{array} $$$$ \sum_{n\ge1}n^{s-1}\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}\left(1+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace/n\right)^{s-1}+\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s-1}. $$ NowThe first term can be handled easily. Use the fact that $\theta$ has irrationality measure 2, asso that $\left\lbrace\lbrace k\theta\rbrace\colon k=1,\ldots,n\right\rbrace$ has discrepancy $O(n^{-1+\delta})$. As the function $x\mapsto(1+x/n)^{s-1}$ has bounded variation of size $g_{n,x,s}$ on$O(1/n)$ over the unit interval, the summation over $0\le x\le1$$k$ converges and is bounded byof size $\lvert s\rvert/n$ for$O(1/n)$. Therefore, the sum over $\Re(s) > 0$$n$ converges on $\Re(s) < 1$, showing that the first term converges to an analytic function on $G_{n,k,s}$$\Re(s) < 1$.

The final summation over $k$ is of sizemore problematic. Assuming $O(\lvert s\rvert k^\epsilon /n)$$\theta$ is a quadratic irrational, and using $\bar z$ to denote the conjugate of $z\in\mathbb{Q}(\theta)$, henceit can be rewritten (up to order of summation) as $$ (\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{0 < z < 1}\frac{z^{s-1}}{\bar z-z}=(\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{j=0}^\infty\sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}. $$ Here, I have substituted in $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$, and the summation is over all $z\in\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ lying in the unit interval. For each bounded region for $s$ on which we want to extend. We only actually have to expand out a finite number of terms in the sum over $\sum_{k\ge1}G_{n,k,s}/(k(k+1))$$j$ above, up until $\Re(s)+j-1$ is positive. In that case, the numerator of sizethe remainder is $O(\lvert s\rvert/n)$$z^{s+j-1}=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s+j-1}$. ThereforeAs $x^{s+j-1}$ will have finite variation over the unit interval, the final expression above forremainder term will converge to an analytic function. So, we just need to show that each term in the sum over $\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)$$j$ extends to a meromorphic function. I'll now restrict to the case where $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ is a sum overnumber field. For example, $n\ge1$ of$\theta=\sqrt{d}$ for squarefree $d\not\cong1$ (mod 4) or $\theta=(1+\sqrt{d})/2$ for squarefree $d\cong1$ (mod 4). I think the general quadratic case follows in a termsimilar manner, but it gets a bit messier. Let $\eta$ be the fundamental unit of size $O(\lvert 1-s\rvert n^{s-2})$$\mathbb{Z}[\theta]$ lying in the unit interval. Then, which convergeseach $z$ in the unit interval can be written uniquely as $\eta^ny$ for $y$ in $[\eta,1)$ and nonnegative integer $n$. Writing $\epsilon=\bar\eta\eta=\pm1$, the term for a fixed $j$ in the expansion above is (uniformly on compactsagain, being a bit careless about order of summation), $$ \begin{array}{rl} \sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}&=\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(\bar\eta ^n\bar z)^{-j-1}(\eta^nz)^{s+j-1}\cr &=\sum_{\eta\le z\le1}\sum_{n=0}^\infty{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}\epsilon^{n(j+1)}\eta^{n(s+2j)}\cr &=\left(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j}\right)^{-1}\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}. \end{array} $$ Now that the summation has being restricted to an analytic function on $\Re(s) < 1$$z\ge\eta$, giving the desired extension ofterm $\tilde\zeta_\theta$$z^{s-j-1}$ will be bounded, and the sum is guarateed to converge. To see this, substitute back $\mathbb{C}$$z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$ and $\bar z=k(\bar\theta-\theta)+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$. Note that I have arrived atThe summand is of size $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ entire$O(k^{-1-j})$, so thatthe sum converges absolutely for $\zeta_\theta$ only$j\ge1$. For $j=0$ it is $(\bar\theta-\theta)^{-1}\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s-1}/k + O(k^{-2})$ for $\lbrace k\theta\rbrace\ge\eta$. As $x^{s-1}$ has poles atfinite variation over the interval $s=1$ and$[\eta,1)$, the sum for $s=2$$j=0$ also converges. There are no poles

Finally, the term $(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j})^{-1}$ is meromorphic on $\mathbb{C}$ with zeros on the imaginary axis as suggestedvertical line $-2j+i\mathbb{R}$. So, $\zeta_\theta$ does extend with poles in the questionclaimed set.

It looks like the tentative conjecture is true -- $\zeta_\theta(s)$ extends to a meromorphic function on $\mathbb{C}$ for all real algebraic numbers. In fact, it will extend to a meromorphic function whenever $\theta$ cannot be approximated by rationals (in particular, if $\theta$ has irrationality measure 2 which, by the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem, includes all algebraic irrationals). Conversely, if an irrational $\theta$ can be approximated too well by rationals then there will not be a meromorphic extension, which will be the case outside of a meagre subset of $\mathbb{R}^+$.  [I think the following is all correct, but I would be more confident if someone double checks it...]

First, let $\lbrace x\rbrace = x - \lfloor x\rfloor$ denote the fractional part of $x$, and write $$ \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)=\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{\lbrace n\theta\rbrace-1/2}{n^s}, $$ which converges on $\Re(s) > 1$ (at the very least).

Then, the function $\zeta_\theta$ defined in the question is $$ \zeta_\theta(s)=\theta\zeta(s-1)-\frac12\zeta(s)-\tilde\zeta_\theta(s), $$ where $\zeta$ is the Riemann zeta function. So, at least, we have an extension to $\Re(s) > 1$. In the case where $\theta$ is rational then $\lbrace n\theta\rbrace-1/2$ is periodic in $n$, so $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ is a linear combination of Dirichlet L-functions and has a meromorphic extension to $\mathbb{C}$. Henceforth, I will only consider irrational $\theta$. Setting $F(x)=\sum_{1\le n\le x}(\lbrace n\theta\rbrace-1/2)$, the equidistribution theorem states that $F(x)/x\to0$ as $x\to\infty$. Rearranginging the expression for $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ gives $$ \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)=s\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{F(n)}{n}n^{-s}\left(\frac ns(1-(1+1/n)^{-s})\right). $$ If $\lvert F(n)/n\rvert$ is bounded by some $\epsilon > 0$ then this expression will be bounded by $\epsilon\zeta(s)$ for all $\Re(s) > 1$. So, by equidistribution, it follows that $(s-1)\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)\to0$ as $s\to1$ (on $s > 1$). If a meromorphic extension existed in a neighbourhood of 1 then this would imply that $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ is bounded near 1. However, if $\theta=p/q$ is rational ($p,q$ coprime) then $F(x)/x\to-1/(2q)$ so, if $x$ is too closely approximated by rationals then there will be a slight bias in $F(x)/x$ and $\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)$ will not be bounded close to 1. I think that the existence of rational approximations $p_n/q_n$ with $q_n^2\log\lvert\theta-p_n/q_n\rvert\to-\infty$ is enough for this to happen.

Now, suppose that $\theta$ has irrationality measure 2, so that there are only finitely many rational approximations $\lvert\theta-p/q\rvert\le q^{-2-\epsilon}$ for each $\epsilon > 0$. Equivalently, there are constants $C_\epsilon > 0$ such that $n^{1+\epsilon}\lvert n\theta-m\rvert\ge C_\epsilon$ for all positive integer $n$ and integer $m$. Then, for each $\epsilon > 0$, the discrepancy of the set $\left\lbrace \lbrace k\theta\rbrace\colon 1\le k\le n\right\rbrace$ is bounded by $Kn^{-1+\epsilon}$ (for a constant $K$, depending on $\epsilon > 0$). This means that $F(n)/n$ is bounded by $2Kn^{-1+\epsilon}$ and, hence, the expression above for $\tilde\zeta(s)$ converges for all $\Re(s) > \epsilon$. So, $\tilde\zeta(s)$ is an analytic function on $\Re(s) > 0$. Therefore, $\zeta_\theta(s)$ is meromorphic in this region with simple poles at $s=2$ and $s=1$.

We can now extend to the whole of $\mathbb{C}$ via a functional equation. Hurwitz's formula gives, for $\Re(s) > 1$, $$ \begin{array}{l} &\sum_{n\ge1}e^{2\pi inx}n^{-s}=(2\pi)^{s-1}\Gamma(1-s)\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,x)+e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,1-x)\right) \end{array} $$ where $\zeta(s,x)=\sum_{n\ge1}(n+x)^{-s}$ is the Hurwitz Zeta function. Plugging in the Fourier series $\lbrace x\rbrace=1/2+\sum_{k\not=0}(i/(2\pi k))e^{2\pi ikx}$, applying Hurwitz's formula, and being careless about when the sums converge/commute (it can be made more rigorous) gives, $$ \begin{array}{rl} \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)&=\sum_{n\ge1}\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{ie^{2\pi ikn\theta}}{2\pi kn^s}\cr &=\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{i}{2\pi k}\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{e^{2\pi in\lbrace k\theta\rbrace}}{n^s}\cr &=(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{i}{k}\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)+e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,1-\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\right)\cr &=(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{i}{k}\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)-e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\right)\cr &=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\cr &=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{n\ge1}\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}(n+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)^{s-1}. \end{array} $$ Setting $$ \begin{array}{l} &g_{n,x,s}=(1+\lbrace x\rbrace/n)^{-s}-(1+(1-\lbrace x\rbrace)/n)^{-s},\cr &G_{n,x,s}=\sum_{1\le k\le x}g_{n,k\theta,s}, \end{array} $$ we have $$ \begin{array}{rl} \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)&=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{n\ge1}\sum_{k\ge1}k^{-1}g_{n,k\theta,1-s}n^{s-1}\cr &=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{n\ge1}\sum_{k\ge1}\frac{G_{n,k,1-s}}{k(k+1)}n^{s-1}. \end{array} $$ Now, as the variation of $g_{n,x,s}$ on $0\le x\le1$ is bounded by $\lvert s\rvert/n$ for $\Re(s) > 0$, $G_{n,k,s}$ is of size $O(\lvert s\rvert k^\epsilon /n)$ and, hence, the sum $\sum_{k\ge1}G_{n,k,s}/(k(k+1))$ is of size $O(\lvert s\rvert/n)$. Therefore, the final expression above for $\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)$ is a sum over $n\ge1$ of a term of size $O(\lvert 1-s\rvert n^{s-2})$, which converges (uniformly on compacts) to an analytic function on $\Re(s) < 1$, giving the desired extension of $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ to $\mathbb{C}$. Note that I have arrived at $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ entire, so that $\zeta_\theta$ only has poles at $s=1$ and $s=2$. There are no poles on the imaginary axis as suggested in the question.

It looks like the conjecture is (almost) true -- $\zeta_\theta(s)$ extends to a meromorphic function on $\mathbb{C}$ for all real quadratic irrationals $\theta$ with poles at $s=2$, $s=1$ and in the infinite set of vertical lines $\lbrace -2n+i\mathbb{R}\colon n\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge0}\rbrace$. I'm not sure about the more tentative conjecture for arbitrary algebraic numbers. Also, more simply, it will extend to a meromorphic function over $\Re(s) > 0$ whenever $\theta$ cannot be approximated too well by rationals (in particular, if $\theta$ has irrationality measure 2 which, by the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem, includes all algebraic irrationals). Conversely, if an irrational $\theta$ can be approximated too well by rationals then there will not be a meromorphic extension, which will be the case outside of a meagre subset of $\mathbb{R}$. 

[Edit: As Pieter pointed out in the comments, my initial answer carelessely missed out a rather important term, so was not correct. I've updated the proof sketch to deal with this term, and restricted to quadratic irrationals for the meromorphic extension. This is very sketchy, and I only go through the full details for $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ a quadratic number field, but I think it does generalize to arbitrary quadratic irrationals in a similar way.]

First, let $\lbrace x\rbrace = x - \lfloor x\rfloor$ denote the fractional part of $x$, and write $$ \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)=\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{\lbrace n\theta\rbrace-1/2}{n^s}, $$ which converges, at least, on $\Re(s) > 1$. Then, the function $\zeta_\theta$ defined in the question is $$ \zeta_\theta(s)=\theta\zeta(s-1)-\frac12\zeta(s)-\tilde\zeta_\theta(s), $$ where $\zeta$ is the Riemann zeta function. So we have an extension to $\Re(s) > 1$. In the case where $\theta$ is rational then $\lbrace n\theta\rbrace-1/2$ is periodic in $n$, so $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ is a linear combination of Dirichlet L-functions and has a meromorphic extension to $\mathbb{C}$. Henceforth, I will only consider irrational $\theta$. Setting $F(x)=\sum_{1\le n\le x}(\lbrace n\theta\rbrace-1/2)$, the equidistribution theorem states that $F(x)/x\to0$ as $x\to\infty$. Rearranginging the expression for $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ gives $$ \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)=\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{F(n)}{n}n^{1-s}\left(1-(1+1/n)^{-s}\right) $$ If $\lvert F(n)/n\rvert$ is bounded by some $\delta > 0$ then this expression will be bounded by $\delta\zeta(s)$ for all $s > 1$. So, by equidistribution, it follows that $(s-1)\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)\to0$ as $s\to1$ (on $s > 1$). If a meromorphic extension existed in a neighbourhood of 1 then this would imply that $\tilde\zeta_\theta$ is bounded near 1. However, if $\theta=p/q$ is rational ($p,q$ coprime) then $F(x)/x\to-1/(2q)$ so, if $x$ is too closely approximated by rationals then there will be a slight bias in $F(x)/x$ and $\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)$ will not be bounded close to 1. I think that the existence of rational approximations $p_n/q_n$ with $q_n^2\log\lvert\theta-p_n/q_n\rvert\to-\infty$ is enough for this to happen.

Now, suppose that $\theta$ has irrationality measure no greater than some finite $\gamma$, so that there are only finitely many rational approximations $\lvert\theta-p/q\rvert\le q^{-\gamma-\delta}$ for any $\delta > 0$. Equivalently, there is a constant $C_\delta > 0$ such that $n^{\gamma-1+\delta}\lvert n\theta-m\rvert\ge C$ for all positive integer $n$ and integer $m$. Then, the discrepancy of the set $\left\lbrace \lbrace k\theta\rbrace\colon 1\le k\le n\right\rbrace$ is bounded by $Kn^{-1/(\gamma-1)+\delta}$ (for a constant $K$). This means that $F(n)/n$ is bounded by $2Kn^{-1/(\gamma-1)+\delta}$ and, hence, the expression above for $\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)$ has summand going to zero at rate $O(n^{-s-1/(\gamma-1)+\delta})$. So, $\tilde\zeta_\theta(s)$ is an analytic function on $\Re(s) > (\gamma-2)/(\gamma-1)$. In particular, for algebraic irrationals, $\gamma=2$ and we get a meromorphic extension of $\zeta_\theta(s)$ to $\Re(s) > 0$ with simple poles at $s=2$ and $s=1$.

I now attempt to extend to the whole of $\mathbb{C}$ via Hurwitz's formula which, for $\Re(s) > 0$ and irrational $x$ in the unit interval, gives $$ \begin{array}{l} &\sum_{n\ge1}e^{2\pi inx}n^{-s}=(2\pi)^{s-1}\Gamma(1-s)\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,x)+e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,1-x)\right) \end{array} $$ where $\zeta(s,x)=\sum_{n\ge0}(n+x)^{-s}$ is the Hurwitz Zeta function. Plugging in the Fourier series $\lbrace x\rbrace=1/2+\sum_{k\not=0}(i/(2\pi k))e^{2\pi ikx}$, applying Hurwitz's formula, and being careless about when the sums converge/commute (it can be made more rigorous) gives, $$ \begin{array}{rl} \tilde\zeta_\theta(s)&=\sum_{n\ge1}\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{ie^{2\pi ink\theta}}{2\pi kn^s}\cr &=(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{i}{k}\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)+e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,1-\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\right)\cr &=(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}\frac{i}{k}\left(e^{i\pi(1-s)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)-e^{i\pi(s-1)/2}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\right)\cr &=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}\zeta(1-s,\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)\cr &=2\sin((s-1)\pi/2)(2\pi)^{s-2}\Gamma(1-s)\sum_{n\ge0}\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}(n+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace)^{s-1}. \end{array} $$ Split up the summation as $$ \sum_{n\ge1}n^{s-1}\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}\left(1+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace/n\right)^{s-1}+\sum_{k\not=0}k^{-1}\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s-1}. $$ The first term can be handled easily. Use the fact that $\theta$ has irrationality measure 2, so that $\left\lbrace\lbrace k\theta\rbrace\colon k=1,\ldots,n\right\rbrace$ has discrepancy $O(n^{-1+\delta})$. As the function $x\mapsto(1+x/n)^{s-1}$ has bounded variation of size $O(1/n)$ over the unit interval, the summation over $k$ converges and is of size $O(1/n)$. Therefore, the sum over $n$ converges on $\Re(s) < 1$, showing that the first term converges to an analytic function on $\Re(s) < 1$.

The final summation over $k$ is more problematic. Assuming $\theta$ is a quadratic irrational, and using $\bar z$ to denote the conjugate of $z\in\mathbb{Q}(\theta)$, it can be rewritten (up to order of summation) as $$ (\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{0 < z < 1}\frac{z^{s-1}}{\bar z-z}=(\bar\theta-\theta)\sum_{j=0}^\infty\sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}. $$ Here, I have substituted in $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$, and the summation is over all $z\in\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ lying in the unit interval. For each bounded region for $s$ on which we want to extend. We only actually have to expand out a finite number of terms in the sum over $j$ above, up until $\Re(s)+j-1$ is positive. In that case, the numerator of the remainder is $z^{s+j-1}=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s+j-1}$. As $x^{s+j-1}$ will have finite variation over the unit interval, the remainder term will converge to an analytic function. So, we just need to show that each term in the sum over $j$ extends to a meromorphic function. I'll now restrict to the case where $\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\theta$ is a number field. For example, $\theta=\sqrt{d}$ for squarefree $d\not\cong1$ (mod 4) or $\theta=(1+\sqrt{d})/2$ for squarefree $d\cong1$ (mod 4). I think the general quadratic case follows in a similar manner, but it gets a bit messier. Let $\eta$ be the fundamental unit of $\mathbb{Z}[\theta]$ lying in the unit interval. Then, each $z$ in the unit interval can be written uniquely as $\eta^ny$ for $y$ in $[\eta,1)$ and nonnegative integer $n$. Writing $\epsilon=\bar\eta\eta=\pm1$, the term for a fixed $j$ in the expansion above is (again, being a bit careless about order of summation), $$ \begin{array}{rl} \sum_{0 < z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s+j-1}&=\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(\bar\eta ^n\bar z)^{-j-1}(\eta^nz)^{s+j-1}\cr &=\sum_{\eta\le z\le1}\sum_{n=0}^\infty{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}\epsilon^{n(j+1)}\eta^{n(s+2j)}\cr &=\left(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j}\right)^{-1}\sum_{\eta\le z < 1}{\bar z}^{-j-1}z^{s-j-1}. \end{array} $$ Now that the summation has being restricted to $z\ge\eta$, the term $z^{s-j-1}$ will be bounded, and the sum is guarateed to converge. To see this, substitute back $z=\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$ and $\bar z=k(\bar\theta-\theta)+\lbrace k\theta\rbrace$. The summand is of size $O(k^{-1-j})$, so the sum converges absolutely for $j\ge1$. For $j=0$ it is $(\bar\theta-\theta)^{-1}\lbrace k\theta\rbrace^{s-1}/k + O(k^{-2})$ for $\lbrace k\theta\rbrace\ge\eta$. As $x^{s-1}$ has finite variation over the interval $[\eta,1)$, the sum for $j=0$ also converges.

Finally, the term $(1-\epsilon^{j+1}\eta^{s+2j})^{-1}$ is meromorphic on $\mathbb{C}$ with zeros on the vertical line $-2j+i\mathbb{R}$. So, $\zeta_\theta$ does extend with poles in the claimed set.

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