Abstract

We extend Bourgain’s bound for the order of growth of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line to Lerch zeta functions. More precisely, we prove L(λ, α, 1/2 + it) ≪ t^13/84+ϵ as t → ∞. For both, the Riemann zeta function as well as for the more general Lerch zeta function, it is conjectured that the right-hand side can be replaced by t^ϵ (which is the so-called Lindelöf hypothesis). The growth of an analytic function is closely related to the distribution of its zeros.