Continued fractions for square series generating functions

DOI10.1007/S11139-017-9971-9MaRDI QIDQ1656812zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maxie D. Schmidt

Publication date 10 August 2018

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02778

zbMATH Keywords

continued fraction\(q\)-seriestheta functionsum of divisors functionordinary generating functionJ-fractionsquare seriessum of squares functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65) Convergence and divergence of continued fractions (40A15) Continued fraction calculations (number-theoretic aspects) (11Y65)

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 $q^{n^2}$ for some fixed non-zero $q$ with $|q|<1$, 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 $h^{th}$ convergents to these continued fraction series and show that the limiting case of these convergent generating functions exists. We also prove new infinite $q$-series representations of special square series expansions involving square-power terms of the series parameter $q$, the $q$-Pochhammer symbol, and double sums over the $q$-binomial coefficients. Applications of the new results we prove within the article include new $q$-series representations for the ordinary generating functions of the special sequences, $r_p(n)$, and $sigm{a}_1(n)$, 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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