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 $\delta \to 0$.

We discuss an alternative approach to Fréchet derivatives on Banach spaces inspired by a characterisation of derivatives due to Carathéodory. The approach allows many questions of differentiability to be reduced to questions of continuity. We demonstrate how that simplifies the theory of differentiation, including the rules of differentiation and the Schwarz lemma on the symmetry of second-order derivatives. We also provide a short proof of the differentiable dependence of fixed points in the Banach fixed point theorem.

Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis, Montgomery showed by means of his pair correlation method that at least two-thirds of the zeros of Riemann's zeta-function are simple. Later he and Taylor improved this to 67.25 percent and, more recently, Cheer and Goldston increased the percentage to 67.2753. Here we prove by a new method that if the Riemann and Generalized Lindel\"of Hypotheses hold, then at least 70.3704 percent of the zeros are simple and at least 84.5679 percent are distinct. Our method uses mean value estimates for various functions defined by Dirichlet series sampled at the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function.

1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11M26.