Properties of reciprocity formulas for the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fractions

DOI10.1007/S11139-019-00153-0MaRDI QIDQ2174288zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rajeev Kohli

Publication date 21 April 2020

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Rogers-Ramanujan continued fractionsRamanujan-Selberg continued fractionRamanujan's cubic continued fractionsreciprocal formulasRamanujan-Göllnitz-Gordon continued fractions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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