# Volume 23

### 1. Notes on the Riemann zeta-function-IV

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.

### 2. On a problem of Ivi\'c.

Let $\gamma$ denote the imaginary parts of the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta-function $\zeta(s)$. For sufficiently large $T$ and $\varepsilon>0$, Ivi\'c proved that $\sum_{T<\gamma\leq2T} \vert\zeta(\frac{1}{2}+i\gamma)\vert^2 <\!\!\!<_{\varepsilon} (T(\log T)^2\log\log T)^{3/2+\varepsilon},$ where the implicit constant depends only on $\varepsilon$. In this paper, this result is improved by (i) replacing $\vert\zeta(\frac{1}{2}+i\gamma)\vert^2$ by $\max\vert\zeta(s)\vert^2$, where the maximum is taken over all $s=\sigma+it$ in the rectangle $\frac{1}{2}-A/\log T\leq\sigma\leq2,\, \vert t-\gamma\vert\leq B(\log\log T)/\log T$ with some fixed positive constants $A, B,$ and (ii) replacing the upper bound by $T(\log T)^2\log\log T$. The method of proof differs completely from Ivi\'c's approach.