Le Roy, Lerch and Legendre chi functions and generalised Borel-Le Roy transform

Abstract

The Le Roy function has been the focus of intensive research in recent years, owing both to its relevance in analysis and its versatility in applications involving fractional differential operators. Other special functions - such as the Lerch transcendent and the Legendre chi function - have found applications ranging from Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics in physics to pure mathematical investigations involving polylogarithms and Dirichlet L-series. In this article, we present a unified framework based on a recent reformulation of Indicial Umbral Theory (IUT) grounded in the formal theory of power series. Within this setting, we study the properties and generalisations of these special functions. In particular, we build upon the revised formulation of IUT to incorporate the role of the Borel-Le Roy transform, and to explore the extension of the formalism to divergent series via appropriate resummation techniques.