Analytic Continuation of Bernoulli Numbers, a New Formula for the Riemann Zeta Function, and the Phenonmenon of Scattering of Zeros

Abstract

The method analytic continuation of operators acting integer n-times to complex s-times (hep-th/9707206) is applied to an operator that generates Bernoulli numbers B_n (Math. Mag. 70(1), 51 (1997)). B_n and Bernoulli polynomials B_n(s) are analytic continued to B(s) and B_s(z). A new formula for the Riemann zeta function zeta(s) in terms of nested series of zeta(n) is derived. The new concept of dynamics of the zeros of analytic continued polynomials is introduced, and an interesting phenonmenon of `scatterings' of the zeros of B_s(z) is observed.