CM Evaluations of the Goswami-Sun Series

Abstract: In recent work, Sun constructed two

q

-series, and he showed that their limits as

q i g h t a r r o w 1

give new derivations of the Riemann-zeta values

z e t a (2) = p i^{2} / 6

and

z e t a (4) = p i^{4} / 90

. Goswami extended these series to an infinite family of

q

-series, which he analogously used to obtain new derivations of the evaluations of

z e t a (2 k) i n m a t h b b Q c d o t p i^{2 k}

for every positive integer

k

. Since it is well known that

G a m m a l e f t (f r a c 12 i g h t) = s q r t p i

, it is natural to seek further specializations of these series which involve special values of the

G a m m a

-function. Thanks to the theory of complex multiplication, we show that the values of these series at all CM points

a u

, where

q := e^{2 p i i a u}

, are algebraic multiples of specific ratios of

G a m m a

-values. In particular, classical formulas of Ramanujan allow us to explicitly evaluate these series as algebraic multiples of powers of

G a m m a l e f t (f r a c 14 i g h t)^{4} / p i^{3}

when

q = e^{- p i}

,

e^{- 2 p i}

.

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