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CM Evaluations of the Goswami-Sun Series

Number Theory 2022-06-22 v1

Abstract

In recent work, Sun constructed two qq-series, and he showed that their limits as q1q\rightarrow1 give new derivations of the Riemann-zeta values ζ(2)=π2/6\zeta(2)=\pi^2/6 and ζ(4)=π4/90\zeta(4)=\pi^4/90. Goswami extended these series to an infinite family of qq-series, which he analogously used to obtain new derivations of the evaluations of ζ(2k)Qπ2k\zeta(2k)\in\mathbb{Q}\cdot\pi^{2k} for every positive integer kk. Since it is well known that Γ(12)=π\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)=\sqrt{\pi}, it is natural to seek further specializations of these series which involve special values of the Γ\Gamma-function. Thanks to the theory of complex multiplication, we show that the values of these series at all CM points τ\tau, where q:=e2πiτq:=e^{2\pi i\tau}, are algebraic multiples of specific ratios of Γ\Gamma-values. In particular, classical formulas of Ramanujan allow us to explicitly evaluate these series as algebraic multiples of powers of Γ(14)4/π3\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{4}\right)^4/\pi^3 when q=eπq=e^{-\pi}, e2πe^{-2\pi}.

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@article{arxiv.1805.03548,
  title  = {CM Evaluations of the Goswami-Sun Series},
  author = {Madeline Locus Dawsey and Ken Ono},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.03548},
  year   = {2022}
}