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

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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 1+frac{qz|}{|1}+frac{q^{2}z|}{|1}+frac{q^{3}z|}{|1}+... provides a counterexample to the conjecture. We also highlight some other interesting phenomena displayed by this fraction.




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