QUAESTIONES MATHEMATICAE, cilt.42, sa.4, ss.465-478, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)
The aim of this paper is to investigate some classes of higher-order Apostol-type numbers and Apostol-type polynomials. We construct Lerch-type zeta functions which interpolate these numbers and polynomials at negative integers. Moreover, by combining some well-known identities such as the Chu-Vandermonde identity with the Lerch-type zeta functions and generating functions for the higher- order Apostol-type numbers and Apostol-type polynomials, we derive some relations and identities including functional equation for these Lerch-type zeta functions with other zeta type functions, Raabe-type multiplication formula for the higher-order Apostol-type polynomials and the Stirling numbers. Finally, we give some remarks and observations on Lerch-type zeta functions and their functional equations.