Integral Transforms in Number Theory

Integral transforms play a fundamental role in science and engineering. Above all, the Fourier transform is the most vital, which has some specifications—Laplace transform, Mellin transform, etc., with their inverse transforms. In this paper, we restrict ourselves to the use of a few versions of the Mellin transform, which are best suited to the treatment of zeta functions as Dirichlet series. In particular, we shall manifest the underlying principle that automorphy (which is a modular relation, an equivalent to the functional equation) is intrinsic to lattice (or Epstein) zeta functions by considering some generalizations of the holomorphic and non-holomorphic Eisenstein series as the Epstein-type Eisenstein series, which have been treated as totally foreign subjects to each other. We restrict to the modular relations with one gamma factor and the resulting integrals reduce to a form of the modified Bessel function. In the H-function hierarchy, what we work with is the second simplest H1,11,1↔H0,22,0, with H denoting the Fox H-function.