Variations of the Ramanujan polynomials and remarks on (2j+1)/^2j+1

DOI10.7169/FACM/2013.48.1.8MaRDI QIDQ1948713zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matilde Lalín, Mathew Rogers

Publication date 24 April 2013

Published in Functiones et Approximatio. Commentarii Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1189, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.facm/1364222831

zbMATH Keywords

Bernoulli numbersEuler numbersRamanujan polynomialsreciprocal polynomialsRiemann zeta function valuesroots on the unit circle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials (11B68) Real polynomials: location of zeros (26C10)

Abstract: We observe that five polynomial families have all of their zeros on the unit circle. We prove the statements explicitly for four of the polynomial families. The polynomials have coefficients which involve Bernoulli numbers, Euler numbers, and the odd values of the Riemann zeta function. These polynomials are closely related to the Ramanujan polynomials, which were recently introduced by Murty, Smyth and Wang. Our proofs rely upon theorems of Schinzel, and Lakatos and Losonczi and some generalizations.

Review text

Starting from a paper by \textit{S. Gun} et al. (2011), who have studied certain Ramanujan polynomials, which have coefficients involving Bernoulli numbers, and whose non-real roots are all on the unit circle, the authors introduce five new polynomials having coefficients involving Bernoulli or Euler numbers and the odd values of the Riemann zeta function. Applying theorems by \textit{A. Schinzel} [Bull. Pol. Acad. Sci., Math. 53, No. 3, 251--258 (2005; Zbl 1106.12002)] and \textit{P. Lakatos} and \textit{L. Losonczi} [Acta Math. Hung. 125, No. 4, 341--356 (2009; Zbl 1224.26055)], as well as certain generalization, the authors succeed to show that four of the considered polynomials have all their nonzero roots on the unit circle. For the fifth one \(P_k(z)\) a computer search was verified for \(k< 1000\). At the end of the paper we can learn that, in a recent paper, the first author and \textit{C. J. Smyth} [Acta Math. Hung. 138, 85--101 (2013)] completely proved the property for all \(k\).

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5888296
• A trio of Bernoulli relations, their implications for the Ramanujan polynomials and the special values of the Riemann zeta function
• On a family of polynomials related to (2,1)= (3)
• Ramanujan's sums and cyclotomic polynomials
• On series identities arising from Jacobi's identity of the theta function

Cites work

• A proof that Euler missed. Apéry's proof of the irrationality of (3). An informal report
• Arithmetic of linear forms involving odd zeta values
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5888296 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3884234 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1873134 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3273551 (Why is no real title available?)
• Irrationality of infinitely many values of the zeta function at odd integers.
• Irrationality of the sums of zeta values
• La fonction zêta de Riemann prend une infinité de valeurs irrationnelles aux entiers impairs
• On some inequalities for the Bernoulli numbers
• Polynomials with all zeros on the unit circle
• Self-inversive polynomials with all zeros on the unit circle
• Sums of products of Bernoulli numbers
• Transcendental values of certain Eichler integrals
• Unimodularity of zeros of self-inversive polynomials

Cited in

(13)

• On the zeros of period functions associated to the Eisenstein series for \(\Gamma_0^+(N)\)
• Ramanujan's trigonometric sums and orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle
• Ramanujan-Bernoulli numbers as moments of Racah polynomials
• On the roots of the Poupard and Kreweras polynomials
• Secant zeta functions
• A new Ramanujan-type identity for \(L(2k+1, \chi_1)\)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5888296 (Why is no real title available?)
• Ramanujan's sums and cyclotomic polynomials
• On a secant Dirichlet series and Eichler integrals of Eisenstein series
• Ramanujan’s Formula for ζ(2n + 1)
• Unimodularity of zeros of period polynomials of Hecke eigenforms
• Recent developments pertaining to Ramanujan's formula for odd zeta values
• The Riemann hypothesis for period polynomials of cusp forms

This page was built for publication: Variations of the Ramanujan polynomials and remarks on \(\zeta(2j+1)/\pi^{2j+1}\)

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1948713)