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Continued Fractions for Square Series Generating Functions

Number Theory 2017-02-20 v4

Abstract

We consider new series expansions for variants of the so-termed ordinary geometric square series generating functions originally defined in the recent article titled "Square Series Generating Function Transformations" (arXiv: 1609.02803). Whereas the original square series transformations article adapts known generating function transformations to construct integral representations for these square series functions enumerating the square powers of qn2q^{n^2} for some fixed non-zero qq with q<1|q| < 1, we study the expansions of these special series through power series generated by Jacobi-type continued fractions, or J-fractions. We prove new exact expansions of the hthh^{th} convergents to these continued fraction series and show that the limiting case of these convergent generating functions exists. We also prove new infinite qq-series representations of special square series expansions involving square-power terms of the series parameter qq, the qq-Pochhammer symbol, and double sums over the qq-binomial coefficients. Applications of the new results we prove within the article include new qq-series representations for the ordinary generating functions of the special sequences, rp(n)r_p(n), and σ1(n)\sigma_1(n), as well as parallels to the examples of the new integral representations for theta functions, series expansions of infinite products and partition function generating functions, and related unilateral special function series cited in the first square series transformations article.

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@article{arxiv.1612.02778,
  title  = {Continued Fractions for Square Series Generating Functions},
  author = {Maxie D. Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02778},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This revision includes a correction to the proof of Proposition 2.4 and explicit expansions of the square series J-fractions. Keywords and MSC subject codes are included in the abstract

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