Infinite products with strongly B-multiplicative exponents

Publication date 18 November 2008

Abstract: Let

N_{1, B} (n)

denote the number of ones in the

B

-ary expansion of an integer

n

. Woods introduced the infinite product

P := p r o d_{n g e q 0} (f r a c 2 n + 1 2 n + 2)^{(- 1)^{N_{1, 2} (n)}}

and Robbins proved that

P = 1 / s q r t 2

. Related products were studied by several authors. We show that a trick for proving that

P^{2} = 1 / 2

(knowing that

P

converges) can be extended to evaluating new products with (generalized) strongly

B

-multiplicative exponents. A simple example is

prod_{n geq 0} (frac{Bn+1}{Bn+2})^{(-1)^{N_{1,B}(n)}} = frac{1}{sqrt B}.

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