Exploring General Ap\'ery Limits via the Zudilin-Straub t-transform
Abstract
Inspired by a recent beautiful construction of Armin Straub and Wadim Zudilin, that 'tweaked' the sum of the powers of the -th row of Pascal's triangle, getting instead of sequences of numbers, sequences of rational functions, we do the same for general binomial coefficients sums, getting a practically unlimited supply of Ap\'ery limits. While getting what we call "major Ap\'ery miracles", proving irrationality of the associated constants (i.e. the so-called Ap\'ery limits) is very rare, we do get, every time, at least a "minor Ap\'ery miracle" where an explicit constant, defined as an (extremely slowly-converging) limit of some explicit sequence, is expressed as an Ap\'ery limit of some recurrence, with some initial conditions, thus enabling a very fast computation of that constant, with exponentially decaying error.
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@article{arxiv.2205.13601,
title = {Exploring General Ap\'ery Limits via the Zudilin-Straub t-transform},
author = {Robert Dougherty-Bliss and Doron Zeilberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.13601},
year = {2022}
}
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