A theorem on divergence in the general sense for continued fractions

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2004.02.012MaRDI QIDQ704197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Douglas Bowman, James McLaughlin

Publication date 13 January 2005

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10878

zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-continued fractionContinued fractionsGeneral convergenceRogers-Ramanujan

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Continued fractions; complex-analytic aspects (30B70) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15) Convergence and divergence of continued fractions (40A15)

Abstract: If the odd and even parts of a continued fraction converge to different values, the continued fraction may or may not converge in the general sense. We prove a theorem which settles the question of general convergence for a wide class of such continued fractions. We apply this theorem to two general classes of $q$ continued fraction to show, that if $G(q)$ is one of these continued fractions and $|q|>1$, then either $G(q)$ converges or does not converge in the general sense. We also show that if the odd and even parts of the continued fraction $K_{n=1}^{infty}{a}_n/1$ converge to different values, then $li{m}_{noinfty}|a_n|=infty$.

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