On the expansion of a continued fraction of Gordon (Q1597191)
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On the expansion of a continued fraction of Gordon (English)
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12 May 2002
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The infinite product \[ P=\frac{(q^3;q^8)_\infty (q^5;q^8)_\infty}{(q;q^8)_\infty (q^7;q^8)_\infty} \] has a very nice and simple continued fraction expansion. In this paper Hirschhorn proves that the power series expansions of both \(P\) and \(1/P\) have beautiful regularities. Indeed, if \(P=\sum a_nq^n\) and \(P^{-1}=\sum b_nq^n\), then \[ a_{8n}>0,\quad a_{8n+1}>0,\quad a_{8n+2}>0,\quad a_{8n+3}=0, \] \[ a_{8n+12}>0,\quad a_{8n+5}<0,\quad a_{8n+6}<0,\quad a_{8n+7}=0, \] \[ b_{8n}>0,\quad b_{8n+1}<0,\quad b_{8n+2}=0,\quad b_{8n+3}>0, \] \[ b_{8n+4}<0,\quad b_{8n+5}>0,\quad b_{8n+6}=0,\quad b_{8n+7}<0 . \]
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Gordon's continued fraction
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power series expansion
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periodicity of sign of coefficients
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Jacobi's triple product
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