Exploring General Ap\'ery Limits via the Zudilin-Straub t-transform
From MaRDI portal
Publication:6400293
DOI10.1080/10236198.2022.2159817zbMATH Open1518.11014arXiv2205.13601MaRDI QIDQ6400293FDOQ6400293
Authors: Robert Dougherty-Bliss, Doron Zeilberger 
Publication date: 26 May 2022
Abstract: Inspired by a recent beautiful construction of Armin Straub and Wadim Zudilin, that 'tweaked' the sum of the powers of the -th row of Pascal's triangle, getting instead of sequences of numbers, sequences of rational functions, we do the same for general binomial coefficients sums, getting a practically unlimited supply of Ap'ery limits. While getting what we call "major Ap'ery miracles", proving irrationality of the associated constants (i.e. the so-called Ap'ery limits) is very rare, we do get, every time, at least a "minor Ap'ery miracle" where an explicit constant, defined as an (extremely slowly-converging) limit of some explicit sequence, is expressed as an Ap'ery limit of some recurrence, with some initial conditions, thus enabling a very fast computation of that constant, with exponentially decaying error.
Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Linear difference equations (39A06) Recurrences (11B37) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65)
This page was built for publication: Exploring General Ap\'ery Limits via the Zudilin-Straub t-transform
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6400293)
