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The beta integral is applied to accelerate the hypergeometric function $2 F 1\left\{1, B; C ; w\right\}$ to derive new infinite series for constants such as $\pi$ and values of the gamma function. A compendium of new infinite series is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Cetin Hakimoglu

The Ramanujan Machine project predicts new continued fraction representations of numbers expressed by important mathematical constants. Generally, the value of a continued fraction is found by reducing it to a second order linear difference…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Shuma Yamamoto

Making use of a newly developed package in the computer mathematics system SageMath, we show how to perform a full asymptotic analysis of certain types of sums that occur frequently in combinatorics, including explicit error bounds. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Benjamin Hackl , Stephan Wagner

Ramanujan stated an identity to the effect that if three sequences $\{a_n\}$, $\{b_n\}$ and $\{c_n\}$ are defined by $r_1(x)=:\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}a_nx^n$, $r_2(x)=:\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}b_nx^n$ and $r_3(x)=:\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}c_nx^n$ (here each…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-16 James Mc Laughlin

The goal of this work is to formulate a systematical method for looking for the simple closed form or continued fraction representation of a class of rational series. As applications, we obtain the continued fraction representations for the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Xiaodong Cao , Cristinel Mortici

Two divergent series in Entry 7 of Gauss's diary are extended systematically by introducing additional parameters. Rogers-Fine identities, Ramanujan's continued fractions and Heine's transformation relations of basic hypergeometric series…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Kiyoshi Sogo

In 1914, Kempner proved that the series 1/1 + 1/2 + ... + 1/8 + 1/10 + 1/11 + ... + 1/18 + 1/20 + 1/21 + ... where the denominators are the positive integers that do not contain the digit 9, converges to a sum less than 90. The actual sum…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Robert Baillie

We introduce SPIRAL, a SuPerlinearly convergent Incremental pRoximal ALgorithm, for solving nonconvex regularized finite sum problems under a relative smoothness assumption. Each iteration of SPIRAL consists of an inner and an outer loop.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Pourya Behmandpoor , Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis , Marc Moonen , Panagiotis Patrinos

A two-term functional equation for an infinite series involving the digamma function and a logarithmic factor is derived. A modular relation on page 220 of Ramanujan's Lost Notebook as well as a corresponding recent result for the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Atul Dixit , Sumukha Sathyanarayana , N. Guru Sharan

This work extends the results of the preprint Ramanujan type Series for Logarithms, Part I, arXiv:2506.08245, which introduced single hypergeometric type identities for the efficient computing of $\log(p)$, where $p\in\mathbb{Z}_{>1}$. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Jorge Zuniga

In the study of Ramanujan sums, the so-called regular $A$-function is a set-valued multiplicative function that tracks certain subsets of the divisor sets of natural numbers. McCarthy provided a generalization of the Ramanujan sum using…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Udvas Acharjee , N. Uday Kiran

Ramanujan Master Theorem is a technique developed by the indian mathematician S. Ramanujan to evaluate a class of definite integrals. This technique is used here to calculate the values of integrals associated with specific Feynman…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-04 Ivan Gonzalez , V. H. Moll , Ivan Schmidt

We consider binomial and inverse binomial sums at infinity and rewrite them in terms of a small set of constants, such as powers of $\pi$ or $\log(2)$. In order to perform these simplifications, we view the series as specializations of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Jakob Ablinger

We prove a number of new Rogers-Ramanujan type identities involving double, triple and quadruple sums. They were discovered after an extensive search using Maple. The main idea of proofs is to reduce them to some known identities in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Zhi Li , Liuquan Wang

An algebraic transformation of the DeTemple-Wang half-integer approximation to the harmonic series produces the general formula and error estimate for the Ramanujan expansion for the nth harmonic number into negative powers of the nth…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-07-30 Mark B. Villarino

We have found several summation formulas that extend Ramanujan's psi sum. First contains a parameter $\alpha=1/N$, $N$ is a positive integer, and transforms to $q$-beta integral in the limit $N\to\infty$. The other is a $q$-analogue of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-05-01 N. M. Vildanov

In this short paper, I introduce an elementary method for exactly evaluating the definite integrals $\, \int_0^{\pi}{\ln{(\sin{\theta})}\,d\theta}$, $\int_0^{\pi/2}{\ln{(\sin{\theta})}\,d\theta}$,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-12-13 F. M. S. Lima

Using a pair of two variable series-product identities recorded by Ramanujan in the lost notebook as inspiration, we find some new identities of similar type. Each identity immediately implies an infinite family of Rogers-Ramanujan type…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-17 James Mc Laughlin , Andrew V. Sills

In his third notebook, Ramanujan claims that $$ \int_0^\infty \frac{\cos(nx)}{x^2+1} \log x \,\mathrm{d} x + \frac{\pi}{2} \int_0^\infty \frac{\sin(nx)}{x^2+1} \mathrm{d} x = 0. $$ In a following cryptic line, which only became visible in a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Bruce C. Berndt , Armin Straub

Several methods are used to evaluate finite trigonometric sums. In each case, either the sum had not previously been evaluated, or it had been evaluated, but only by analytic means, e.g., by complex analysis or modular transformation…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Bruce C. Berndt , Sun Kim , Alexandru Zaharescu