Wallis-Ramanujan-Schur-Feynman

DOI10.4169/000298910X496741MaRDI QIDQ3586271zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors O. R. Espinosa, Victor H. Moll, Armin Straub, T. Amdeberhan

Publication date 6 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2453, http://www.maa.org/pubs/monthly_augsep10_toc.html

zbMATH Keywords

Feynman diagramsbinomial coefficientsSchur functionsintegralsformulasMatsubara sums

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Feynman diagrams (81T18) History of number theory (11-03) One-variable calculus (26A06)

Abstract: One of the earliest examples of analytic representations for $pi$ is given by an infinite product provided by Wallis in 1655. The modern literature often presents this evaluation based on the integral formula ${\displaystyle }$ frac{2}{pi} int_0^infty frac{dx}{(x^2+1)^{n+1}} = frac{1}{2^{2n}} �inom{2n}{n}. ${\displaystyle }$ In trying to understand the behavior of this integral when the integrand is replaced by the inverse of a product of distinct quadratic factors, the authors encounter relations to some formulas of Ramanujan, expressions involving Schur functions, and Matsubara sums that have appeared in the context of Feynman diagrams.

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