On Kubota's Dirichlet series

Abstract

Kubota [T. Kubota, Some results concerning reciprocity law and real analytic automorphic functions, in: 1969 Number Theory Institute (Proc. Sympos. Pure Math. XX, State Univ. New York, Stony Brook, N.Y., 1969), Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I. (1971), 382–395.] showed how the theory of Eisenstein series on the higher metaplectic covers of SL2 (which he discovered) can be used to study the analytic properties of Dirichlet series formed with n-th order Gauss sums. In this paper we will prove a functional equation for such Dirichlet series in the precise form required by the companion paper [B. Brubaker, D. Bump, G. Chinta, S. Friedberg, and J. Hostein, Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series I, preprint, http://sporadic.stanford.edu/bump/wmd.pdf.]. Closely related results are in Eckhardt and Patterson [C. Eckhardt and S. J. Patterson, On the Fourier coefficients of biquadratic theta series, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 64(2) (1992), 225–264.].