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On the convergence acceleration of some continued fractions

Numerical Analysis 2012-03-06 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

A well known method for convergence acceleration of continued fraction \K(an/bn)\K(a_n/b_n) is to use the modified approximants Sn(ωn)S_n(\omega_n) in place of the classical approximants Sn(0)S_n(0), where ωn\omega_n are close to tails f(n)f^{(n)} of continued fraction. Recently, author proposed a method of iterative character producing tail approximations whose asymptotic expansion's accuracy is improving in each step. This method can be applied to continued fractions \K(an/bn)\K(a_n/b_n), where ana_n, bnb_n are polynomials in nn (degan=2\deg a_n=2, degbn1\deg b_n\leq 1) for sufficiently large nn. The purpose of this paper is to extend this idea for the class of continued fractions \K(an/bn+an/bn)\K(a_n/b_n + a_n'/b_n'), where ana_n, ana_n', bnb_n, bnb_n' are polynomials in nn (degan=degan,degbn=degbn\deg a_n=\deg a_n', \deg b_n=\deg b_n'). We give examples involving such continued fraction expansions of some mathematical constants, as well as elementary and special functions.

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@article{arxiv.1108.3367,
  title  = {On the convergence acceleration of some continued fractions},
  author = {Rafał Nowak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3367},
  year   = {2012}
}

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