Series representations for special functions and mathematical constants (Q282988)

From the introduction: The representation of a function as an infinite series plays an important role in various parts of mathematics as well as in physics and engineering. Over the years, numerous researchers published remarkable series representations for many special functions and offered interesting applications such as Apéry's proof that \(\zeta(3)\) is irrational and Ramanujan's development of rapidly convergent series representations for the Riemann zeta function. It is the aim of this paper to continue the work on this subject and to present new single-parameter series representations for the following classical functions: Gamma and beta functions; trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions; logarithm function; polylogarithm function; complete elliptic integrals; error function. As special cases of our results, we obtain series representations for various mathematical constants, like, for instance, \(arctan(1/\sqrt 2)\), \(\log\frac{\sqrt 2+1]}{\sqrt 2-1}\), and \(1/\pi^{3/2}\). In the next section we describe the technique to develop our series representations. In Sect. 3 we offer our representations for special functions, and in Sect. 4 we provide some additional series representations for the Catalan constant and \(\pi\) which are not derived from representations for special functions.