Hecke's integral formula and Kronecker's limit formula for an arbitrary extension of number fields

The classical Hecke's integral formula expresses the partial zeta function of real quadratic fields as an integral of the real analytic Eisenstein series along a certain closed geodesic on the modular curve. In this talk, we present a generalization of this formula in the case of an arbitrary extension E/F of number fields. As an application, we present the residue formula and Kronecker's limit formula for an extension E/F of number fields, which gives an integral expression of the residue and the constant term at s=1 of the "relative'' partial zeta function associated to E/F. This gives a simultaneous generalization of two different known results given by Hecke-Epstein and Yamamoto.

This result grew out of the study on geodesic multi-dimensional continued fractions and their periodicity. I would like to explain this original motivation after the tea.