Properties of reciprocity formulas for the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fractions

DOI10.1007/S11139-019-00153-0zbMATH Open1453.11010arXiv1806.05739OpenAlexW2963203166WikidataQ127435161 ScholiaQ127435161MaRDI QIDQ2174288FDOQ2174288

Authors: Rajeev Kohli 

Publication date: 21 April 2020

Published in: The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Ramanujan recorded four reciprocity formulas for the Roger-Ramanujan continued fraction. Two reciprocity formulas each are also associated with the Ramanujan--G"ollnitz--Gordon continued fraction and a level-13 analog of the Roger-Ramanujan continued fraction. We show that all eight reciprocity formulas are related to a pair of quadratic equations. The solution to the first equation generalizes the golden ratio and is used to set the value of a coefficient in the second equation; and the solution to the second equation gives a pair of values for a continued fraction. We relate the coefficients of the quadratic equations to important formulas obtained by Ramanujan, examine the pattern of the relation between a continued fraction and its parameters, and use the reciprocity formulas to obtain close approximations for all values of the continued fraction. We highlight patterns in the expressions for certain explicit values of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction by expressing them in terms of the golden ratio. We extend the results to reciprocity formulas for Ramanujan's cubic continued fraction and the Ramanujan-Selberg continued fraction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05739

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zbMATH Keywords

Rogers-Ramanujan continued fractionsRamanujan-Selberg continued fraction[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Ramanujan-G%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDllnitz-Gordon+continued+fractions&go=Go Ramanujan-G��llnitz-Gordon continued fractions]Ramanujan's cubic continued fractionsreciprocal formulas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70)

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