On Plouffe's Ramanujan identities

DOI10.1007/S11139-011-9335-9zbMATH Open1271.11086arXivmath/0609775OpenAlexW3104697517MaRDI QIDQ427282FDOQ427282

Authors: Linas Vepštas 

Publication date: 13 June 2012

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

Abstract: Recently, Simon Plouffe has discovered a number of identities for the Riemann zeta function at odd integer values. These identities are obtained numerically and are inspired by a prototypical series for Apery's constant given by Ramanujan: $zeta(3)=frac7p{i}^{3}180-2su{m}_{n=1}^{i}nftyfrac1n^3(e^{2pin}-1)$ Such sums follow from a general relation given by Ramanujan, which is rediscovered and proved here using complex analytic techniques. The general relation is used to derive many of Plouffe's identities as corollaries. The resemblance of the general relation to the structure of theta functions and modular forms is briefly sketched.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609775

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zbMATH Keywords

theta functionmodular formApéry's constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27)

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