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The Convergence Behavior of $q$-Continued Fractions on the Unit Circle

Number Theory 2019-01-01 v1

Abstract

In a previous paper, we showed the existence of an uncountable set of points on the unit circle at which the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction does not converge to a finite value. In this present paper, we generalise this result to a wider class of qq-continued fractions, a class which includes the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction and the three Ramanujan-Selberg continued fractions. We show, for each qq-continued fraction, G(q)G(q), in this class, that there is an uncountable set of points, YGY_{G}, on the unit circle such that if yYGy \in Y_{G} then G(y)G(y) does not converge to a finite value. We discuss the implications of our theorems for the convergence of other qq-continued fractions, for example the G\"ollnitz-Gordon continued fraction, on the unit circle.

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@article{arxiv.1812.11221,
  title  = {The Convergence Behavior of $q$-Continued Fractions on the Unit Circle},
  author = {Douglas Bowman and James Mc Laughlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.11221},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

11 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1812.10873