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Ramanujan-type formulae for $1/\pi$: the art of translation

Number Theory 2013-12-03 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We outline an elementary method for proving numerical hypergeometric identities, in particular, Ramanujan-type identities for 1/π1/\pi. The principal idea is using algebraic transformations of arithmetic hypergeometric series to translate non-singular points into singular ones, where the required constants can be computed using asymptotic analysis.

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@article{arxiv.1302.0548,
  title  = {Ramanujan-type formulae for $1/\pi$: the art of translation},
  author = {Jesús Guillera and Wadim Zudilin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.0548},
  year   = {2013}
}

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15 pages