New Wallis- and Catalan-Type Infinite Products for α, <em>e</em> and

DOI10.4169/000298910X523399MaRDI QIDQ3069249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jonathan Sondow, Huang Yi

Publication date 25 January 2011

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2712

zbMATH Keywords

gamma functionasymptoticsconstantsfactorizationseriesStirling's formulafactorialsCatalan-type infinite productsEuler's reflection formulaPippenger's productWallis-type products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Convergence and divergence of infinite products (40A20)

Abstract: We generalize Wallis's 1655 infinite product for $pi/2$ to one for $(pi/K)csc(pi/K)$, as well as give new Wallis-type products for $pi/4,2,sqrt2+sqrt2,2pi/3sqrt3,$ and other constants. The proofs use a classical infinite product formula involving the gamma function. We also extend Catalan's 1873 infinite product of radicals for $e$ to Catalan-type products for $e/4,sqrte$, and $e^{3/2}/2$. Here the proofs use Stirling's formula. Finally, we find an analog for $e^{2/3}/sqrt3$ of Pippenger's 1980 infinite product for $e/2$, and we conjecture that they can be generalized to a product for a power of $e^{1/K}$.

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