Well-poised generation of Apéry-like recursions

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2003.11.016zbMATH Open1063.11026arXivmath/0307058OpenAlexW2069262245MaRDI QIDQ1772364FDOQ1772364

Wadim Zudilin

Publication date: 18 April 2005

Published in: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The idea to use classical hypergeometric series and, in particular, well-poised hypergeometric series in diophantine problems of the values of the polylogarithms has led to several novelties in number theory and neighbouring areas of mathematics. Here we present a systematic approach to derive second-order polynomial recursions for approximations to some values of the Lerch zeta function, depending on the fixed (but not necessarily real) parameter $alpha$ satisfying the condition $Re(alpha)<1$. Substituting $alpha=0$ into the resulting recurrence equations produces the famous recursions for rational approximations to $zeta(2)$, $zeta(3)$ due to Ap'ery, as well as the known recursion for rational approximations to $zeta(4)$. Multiple integral representations for solutions of the constructed recurrences are also given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0307058

zbMATH Keywords

Hypergeometric seriesMultiple integralPolynomial recursionZeta valueApéry's approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized hypergeometric series, ({}_pF_q) (33C20) (zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) Diophantine approximation, transcendental number theory (11J99) Higher logarithm functions (33B30)

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