On the representability of sequences as constant terms

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2023.06.015MaRDI QIDQ6093377zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alin Bostan, Armin Straub, Sergey Yurkevich

Publication date 6 September 2023

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10116

zbMATH Keywords

Laurent polynomialsinteger sequencesdiagonals of rational functionshypergeometric sequencesGauss congruencesC-finite sequencesP-finite sequencesconstant term sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Recurrences (11B37)

Abstract: A constant term sequence is a sequence of rational numbers whose $n$-th term is the constant term of $$, where $$ and $$ are multivariate Laurent polynomials. While the generating functions of such sequences are invariably diagonals of multivariate rational functions, and hence special period functions, it is a famous open question, raised by Don Zagier, to classify those diagonals which are constant terms. In this paper, we provide such a classification in the case of sequences satisfying linear recurrences with constant coefficients. We further consider the case of hypergeometric sequences and, for a simple illustrative family of hypergeometric sequences, classify those that are constant terms.

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