Rogers-Ramanujan and the Baker-Gammel-Wills (Padé) conjecture

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2003.157.847zbMATH Open1068.41033arXivmath/0402305OpenAlexW2127352849WikidataQ122892528 ScholiaQ122892528MaRDI QIDQ1423980FDOQ1423980

Authors: Doron S. Lubinsky 

Publication date: 8 March 2004

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1961, Baker, Gammel and Wills conjectured that for functions $f$ meromorphic in the unit ball, a subsequence of its diagonal Pad'{e} approximants converges uniformly in compact subsets of the ball omitting poles of $f$. There is also apparently a cruder version of the conjecture due to Pad'{e} himself, going back to the earlier twentieth century. We show here that for carefully chosen $q$ on the unit circle, the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction ${\displaystyle }$1+frac{qz|}{|1}+frac{q^{2}z|}{|1}+frac{q^{3}z|}{|1}+... ${\displaystyle }$ provides a counterexample to the conjecture. We also highlight some other interesting phenomena displayed by this fraction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402305

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zbMATH Keywords

Rogers-Ramanujan continued fractionBaker-Gammel-Wills conjecturediagonal Padé approximants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70) Continued fractions; complex-analytic aspects (30B70) Approximation in the complex plane (30E10) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15) Padé approximation (41A21)

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