Stirling-Ramanujan constants are exponential periods
Abstract
Ramanujan studied a general class of Stirling constants that are the resummation of some natural divergent series. These constants include the classical Euler-Mascheroni, Stirling and Glaisher-Kinkelin constants. We find natural integral representations for all these constants that appear as exponential periods in the field which reveals their natural transalgebraic nature. We conjecture that all these constants are transcendental numbers. Euler-Mascheroni's and Stirling's integral formula are classical, but the integral formula for Glaisher-Kinkelin appears to be new, as well as the integral formulas for the higher Stirling-Ramanujan constants. The method presented generalizes naturally to prove that many other constants are exponential periods over the field .
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@article{arxiv.2402.02660,
title = {Stirling-Ramanujan constants are exponential periods},
author = {Vicente Muñoz and Ricardo Perez-Marco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02660},
year = {2024}
}
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20 pages. Final published version