TITLE: How to manipulate this functions to an identity involving the Riemann zeta function
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: The identity I want to prove is the following (from Stein's book, an introduction to Fourier analysis):
$$\pi^{-s/2} \Gamma(s/2) \zeta (s)=\frac{1}{2} \int_{0}^{\infty}t^{\frac{s}{2}-1}(v(t)-1)dt$$
for $s>1$, where $v(t)$ is the theta function and $\Gamma(s)$ is the gamma function.
So when I manipulate the LHS of the equation I get the following:
$$\int_{0}^{\infty}e^{-t}t^{\frac{s}{2}-1}(\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}(\frac{1}{\pi^{-s/2}n^s}))dt$$
The thing is What can I do next, and How do I am going to get the negative part of the theta function?.
Can someone help me to prove this identity please?, Thanks a lot in advance :)
Theta function:
$$\nu(s)=\sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty}e^{-\pi n^{2}s}$$

REPLY [3 votes]: To start with let's write (following the wikipedia convention)
$$\nu(t):=\vartheta(0,it)=\sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty}e^{-\pi n^2 t }=\sum_{n=-\infty}^{-1}e^{-\pi n^2 t }+1+\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}e^{-\pi n^2 t }=2\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}e^{-\pi n^2 t }+1$$
Therefore:
$$
I=\frac{1}{2}\int_{0}^{\infty}dt \left(\nu(t)-1\right)t^{s/2-1}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\int_{0}^{\infty}dt e^{-\pi n^2 t }t^{s/2-1}
$$
The integral is easily be calculated in terms of $\Gamma$-functions (substituting $\pi n^2 t \rightarrow x$ and use the defintion of $\Gamma$ )
and we end up with
$$
I=\pi^{-s/2}\Gamma(s/2)\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{1}{n^s}=\pi^{-s/2}\Gamma(s/2)\zeta(s)
$$
Q.E.D.