Bounds on Irrationality Measures and the Flint-Hills Series

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Authors Alex Meiburg

Publication date 28 August 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of irrationality and of transcendence (11J82) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05)

Abstract: It is unknown whether the Flint-Hills series $su{m}_{n=1}^{i}nftyfrac1n^{3}si{n}^2(n)$ converges. Alekseyev (2011) connected this question to the irrationality measure of $pi$, that $mu(pi)>frac52$ would imply divergence of the Flint-Hills series. In this paper we established a near-complete converse, that $mu(pi)<frac52$ would imply convergence. The associated results on the density of close rational approximations may be of independent interest. The remaining edge case of $mu(pi)=frac52$ is briefly addressed, with evidence that it would be hard to resolve.

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