Carlson's theorem and vertical limit functions

We extend a classical theorem of Carlson on moments of Dirichlet series from $p=2$ to $1\le p<\mathrm{\infty }$. When combined with the ergodic theorem for the Kronecker flow, a coherent approach to almost sure properties of vertical limit functions in $H^p$ spaces of Dirichlet series is obtained. This allows us to establish an almost sure analytic continuation of vertical limit functions to the right half-plane that can be used to compute the $H^p$ norm and to prove a version of Fatou’s theorem.