Pseudo-factorials, elliptic functions, and continued fractions

DOI10.1007/S11139-009-9186-9zbMATH Open1183.33037arXiv0901.1379OpenAlexW1971132699WikidataQ60692842 ScholiaQ60692842MaRDI QIDQ2270201FDOQ2270201

Authors: Roland Bacher, Philippe Flajolet 

Publication date: 15 March 2010

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

Abstract: This study presents miscellaneous properties of pseudo-factorials, which are numbers whose recurrence relation is a twisted form of that of usual factorials. These numbers are associated with special elliptic functions, most notably, a Dixonian and a Weierstrass function, which parametrize the Fermat cubic curve and are relative to a hexagonal lattice. A continued fraction expansion of the ordinary generating function of pseudo-factorials, first discovered empirically, is established here. This article also provides a characterization of the associated orthogonal polynomials, which appear to form a new family of "elliptic polynomials", as well as various other properties of pseudo-factorials, including a hexagonal lattice sum expression and elementary congruences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1379

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Padé approximation (41A21) Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05)

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