Let $q\ge 3$ be an integer, let $\chi$ denote a Dirichlet character modulo $q.$ For any real number $a\ge 0$ we define the generalized Dirichlet $L$-functions $$L(s,\chi ,a)=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }\frac{\chi \left(n\right)}{{(n+a)}^s},$$ where $s=\sigma +\mathrm{i}t$ with $\sigma >1$ and $t$ both real. They can be extended to all $s$ by analytic continuation. In this paper we study the mean value properties of the generalized Dirichlet $L$-functions especially for $s=1$ and $s=\frac{1}{2}+\mathrm{i}t$, and obtain two sharp asymptotic formulas by using the analytic method and the theory of van der Corput.

The estimations of lower order $\left(R\right)$ $\lambda$ in terms of the sequences $\left\{a_n\right\}$ and $\left\{{\lambda }_n\right\}$ for an entire Dirichlet series $f\left(s\right)={\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }{a}_n{e}^{s\lambda n}$, have been obtained, namely : $$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill \lambda & =\underset{\left\{{\lambda }_{n_p}\right\}}{max}lim\underset{p\to \infty }{inf}\frac{{\lambda }_{n_p}log{\lambda }_{n_{p-1}}}{log|a_{n_p}{|}^{-1}}\hfill \\ & =\underset{\left\{{\lambda }_{n_p}\right\}}{max}lim\underset{p\to \infty }{inf}\frac{({\lambda }_{n_p}-{\lambda }_{n_{p-1}})log{\lambda }_{n_{p-1}}}{log\left|a_{n_{p-1}}\right|a_{n_p}|}.\hfill \end{array}$$ One of these estimations improves considerably the estimations earlier obtained by Rahman (Quart. J. Math. Oxford, (2), 7, 96-99 (1956)) and Juneja and Singh (Math. Ann., 184(1969), 25-29 ).

A limit theorem in the space of continuous functions for the Dirichlet polynomial $$\sum _{m\le T}\frac{d_{{\kappa }_T}\left(m\right)}{m^{{\sigma }_T+it}}$$ where $d_{{\kappa }_T}\left(m\right)$ denote the coefficients of the Dirichlet series expansion of the function ${\zeta }^{{\kappa }_T}\left(s\right)$ in the half-plane $\sigma \>1$ ${\kappa }_T={(2^{-1}log{l}_T)}^{-\frac{1}{2}}$, ${\sigma }_T=\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1n^2{l}_T}{l_T}$ and $l_T\>0$, $l_T\le$ 1n $T$ and $l_T\to \infty$ as $T\to \infty$, is proved.

This article deals with the value distribution of multiplicative prime-independent arithmetic functions $\left(\alpha \right(n\left)\right)$ with $\alpha \left(n\right)=1$ if $n$ is $N$-free ($N\ge 2$ a fixed integer), $\alpha \left(n\right)>1$ else, and $\alpha \left(2^n\right)\to \infty$. An asymptotic result is established with an error term probably definitive on the basis of the present knowledge about the zeros of the zeta-function. Applications to the enumerative functions of Abelian groups and of semisimple rings of given finite order are discussed.

We prove: If $A\left(n\right)$ and $G\left(n\right)$ denote the arithmetic and geometric means of the first $n$ positive integers, then the sequence $n\mapsto nA\left(n\right)/G\left(n\right)-(n-1)A(n-1)/G(n-1)$ $(n\ge 2)$ is strictly increasing and converges to $e/2$, as $n$ tends to $\infty$.

In this paper we prove a lower bound for the linear dependence of three positive rational numbers under certain weak linear independence conditions on the coefficients of the linear forms. Let $\Lambda =b_{2}log{\alpha }_2-b_{1}log{\alpha }_1-b_{3}log{\alpha }_3\ne 0$ with $b_1,b_2,b_3$ positive integers and ${\alpha }_1,{\alpha }_2,{\alpha }_3$ positive multiplicatively independent rational numbers greater than $1$. Let ${\alpha }_{j1}={\alpha }_{j1}/{\alpha }_{j2}$ with ${\alpha }_{j1},{\alpha }_{j2}$ coprime positive integers $(j=1,2,3)$. Let ${\alpha }_j\ge \text{max}\{{\alpha }_{j1},e\}$ and assume that gcd$(b_1,b_2,b_3)=1.$ Let $$b^{\text{'}}=\left(\frac{b_2}{log{\alpha }_1}+\frac{b_1}{log{\alpha }_2}\right)\left(\frac{b_2}{log{\alpha }_3}+\frac{b_3}{log{\alpha }_2}\right)$$ and assume that $B\ge \text{max}\{10,log{b}^{\text{'}}\}.$ We prove that either $\{b_1,b_2,b_3\}$ is $\left(c_4,B\right)$-linearly dependent over $\mathbb{Z}$ (with respect to $\left(a_1,a_2,a_3\right)$)...