Functional equation and zeros on the critical line of the quadrilateral zeta function

Abstract

For $0 < a \le 1/2$, we define the quadrilateral zeta function $Q(s,a)$ using the Hurwitz and periodic zeta functions and show that $Q(s,a)$ satisfies Riemann's functional equation studied by Hamburger, Heck and Knopp. Moreover, we prove that for any $0 < a \le 1/2$, there exist positive constants $A(a)$ and $T_0(a)$ such that the number of zeros of the quadrilateral zeta function $Q(s,a)$ on the line segment from $1/2$ to $1/2 +iT$ is greater than $A(a) T$ whenever $T \ge T_0(a)$.