Note on a continued fraction of Ramanujan

DOI10.1023/A:1009865503459MaRDI QIDQ1567055zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Robert L. Lamphere

Publication date 5 June 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009865503459

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractiongamma functionhypergeometric differential equationhypergeometric seriesRamanujan

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Continued fractions; complex-analytic aspects (30B70) Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15)

Review text

In this note, making use of a Nörlund's continued fraction [see \textit{L. Lorentzen} and \textit{H. Waadeland}, Continued fractions with applications (1992; Zbl 0782.40001): p. 304, Theorem 2] as well as a hypergeometric formula due to S. Ramanujan [Notebooks (Vols. I, II), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay (1957; Zbl 0138.24201): Notebook II; chapter 10, Corollary to Entry 34], a new proof of a certain continued fraction by Ramanujan involving a quotient of gamma function products [Notebook II, Chapter 12, Entry 25], is given. Other different proofs have been previously carried out by several authors.

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