| Hardy-Ramanujan Journal |
In earlier papers of this series III and IV, poles of certain meromorphic functions involving Riemann's zeta-function at shifted arguments and Dirichlet polynomials were studied. The functions in question were quotients of products of such functions, and it was shown that they have ``many'' poles. The main result in the present paper is that the same conclusion remains valid even for finite sums of functions of this type.