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Popa's "Recurrent Sequences" and Reciprocity

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-06-24 v3 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics Number Theory

Abstract

Dumitru Popa found asymptotic expansions for certain nonlinear recurrences, but left open the numerical evaluation of associated constants. We address this issue. A change of variables involving reciprocals and the algorithm of Mavecha & Laohakosol play a key role in our computations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2412.11806,
  title  = {Popa's "Recurrent Sequences" and Reciprocity},
  author = {Steven Finch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11806},
  year   = {2025}
}

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16 pages

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