The Shintani double zeta functions

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we give an explicit formula for the Shintani double zeta functions with any ramification in the most general setting of adeles over an arbitrary number field. Three applications of the explicit formula are given. First, we obtain a functional equation satisfied by the Shintani double zeta functions in addition to Shintani’s functional equations. Second, we establish the holomorphicity of a certain Dirichlet series generalizing a result by Ibukiyama and Saito. This Dirichlet series occurs in the study of unipotent contributions of the geometric side of the Arthur–Selberg trace formula of the symplectic group. Third, we prove an asymptotic formula of the weighted average of the central values of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions.