Certain families of series associated with the Hurwitz–Lerch Zeta function

Abstract

Abstract The history of problems of evaluation of series associated with the Riemann Zeta function can be traced back to Christian Goldbach (1690–1764) and Leonhard Euler (1707–1783). Many different techniques to evaluate various series involving the Zeta and related functions have since then been developed. The authors show how elegantly certain families of series involving the Hurwitz–Lerch Zeta function can be evaluated by starting with a single known identity for the Hurwitz–Lerch Zeta function. Some of the special cases of these series identities are also shown to lead to certain known families of summation formulas involving the Hurwitz Zeta function.