The Dyadic Cauchy-Kernel Identity: Several Roads Back to Classical Objects

Abstract

This is an expository note. We take the dyadic Cauchy-kernel identity of Castillo-Costin-Costin, a global rational/factorial decomposition built on the polylogarithm, and follow it down several specializations. In each direction it returns to a classical landmark: the polylogarithm duplication formula and Hurwitz's Fourier-series formula; representations of the zeta function at the special argument pi and at rational arguments, in the neighborhood of Hurwitz's multiplication theorem; the Hasse-Sondow globally convergent series; and, through its discrete scale invariance, the extra zeros of the Dirichlet eta function together with the harmonic-sum asymptotics of Flajolet-Gourdon-Dumas, with Dirichlet L-values emerging as the amplitudes of a log-periodic oscillation. The aim is unification: to exhibit one compact identity as an organizing center from which these classical results may be read off. We claim no new theorems; where an identity may not previously have been displayed in exactly this form, we say so and explain why it is nonetheless a recombination of known ingredients.