Linear independence of harmonic numbers over the field of algebraic numbers

DOI10.1007/S11139-018-0124-6MaRDI QIDQ2301902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tapas Chatterjee, Sonika Dhillon

Publication date 25 February 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09763

zbMATH Keywords

digamma functionharmonic numbersGalois theorylinear independenceGauss formulaBaker's theorylinear forms in logarithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transcendence (general theory) (11J81) Transcendence theory of other special functions (11J91) Linear forms in logarithms; Baker's method (11J86)

Abstract: Let $H_n=sumlimit{s}_{k=1}^{n}frac1k$ be the $n$-th harmonic number. Euler extended it to complex arguments and defined $H_r$ for any complex number $r$ except for the negative integers. In this paper, we give a new proof of the transcendental nature of $H_r$ for rational $r$. For some special values of $q>1,$ we give an upper bound for the number of linearly independent harmonic numbers $H_{a/q}$ with $1leqaleqq$ over the field of algebraic numbers. Also, for any finite set of odd primes $J$ with $|J|=n,$ define ${\displaystyle }$W_J=overline{mathbb{Q}}- ext {span of } { H_1, H_{a_{j_i}/q_i} | 1 leq a_{j_i} leq q_i -1, 1 leq j_i leq q_i-1, forall q_i in J}.${\displaystyle }$ Finally, we show that ${\displaystyle }$ ext{ dim }_{overline{mathbb{Q}}} ~W_J=sumlimits_{substack{i=1 \ q_i in J}}^n frac{phi (q_i )}{2} + 2.${\displaystyle }$

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