On the arithmetic nature of the values of the gamma function, Euler's constant, and Gompertz's constant

DOI10.1307/mmj/1339011525zbMath1288.11073MaRDI QIDQ1940057

Tanguy Rivoal

Publication date: 5 March 2013

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.mmj/1339011525

zbMATH Keywords

irrationality measure; transcendence; Gamma function; algebraic independence; Padé approximant; Euler constant; \(E\)-function; Gompertz constant; Shidlovskiĭ's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

33B15: Gamma, beta and polygamma functions

11J91: Transcendence theory of other special functions

11J82: Measures of irrationality and of transcendence

11J13: Simultaneous homogeneous approximation, linear forms

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