We study p-adic L-functions $$L_p(s,\chi )$$
L
p
(
s
,
χ
)
for Dirichlet characters $$\chi $$
χ
. We show that $$L_p(s,\chi )$$
L
p
(
s
,
χ
)
has a Dirichlet series expansion for each regularization parameter c that is prime to p and the conductor of $$\chi $$
χ
. The expansion is proved by transforming a known formula for p-adic L-functions and by controlling the limiting behavior. A finite number of Euler factors can be factored off in a natural manner from the p-adic Dirichlet series. We also provide an alternative proof of the expansion using p-adic measures and give an explicit formula for the values of the regularized Bernoulli distribution. The result is particularly simple for $$c=2$$
c
=
2
, where we obtain a Dirichlet series expansion that is similar to the complex case.
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