Two hypergeometric tales and a new irrationality measure of (2)

DOI10.1007/S40316-014-0016-0zbMATH Open1307.11085arXiv1310.1526OpenAlexW2045134270MaRDI QIDQ742923FDOQ742923

Wadim Zudilin

Publication date: 19 September 2014

Published in: Annales Mathématiques du Québec (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the new upper bound 5.095412 for the irrationality exponent of $zeta(2)=p{i}^2/6$; the earlier record bound 5.441243 was established in 1996 by G. Rhin and C. Viola.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1526

Recommendations

• On the irrationality measure of \(\zeta (2)\)
• On the irrationality measure for a $ q$-analogue of $ \zeta(2)$
• The irrationality measures of \(\zeta (2)\) and \(\zeta (3)\) revisited
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2105657
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 851646
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2182797
• Irrationality of \(\zeta _{q}(1)\) and \(\zeta _{q}(2)\)
• A new proof of the irrationality of \(\zeta (2)\) and \(\zeta (3)\) using Padé approximants
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4033842
• A new irrationality measure for ζ(3)

zbMATH Keywords

hypergeometric seriesrational approximationsirrationality exponent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized hypergeometric series, ({}_pF_q) (33C20) Measures of irrationality and of transcendence (11J82) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Hypergeometric integrals and functions defined by them ((E), (G), (H) and (I) functions) (33C60)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On the irrationality exponent of the number \(\ln 2\)
• A few remarks on \(\zeta (3)\)
• Irrationality of values of the Riemann zeta function
• The group structure for \(\zeta(3)\)
• On a permutation group related to ζ(2)
• On recurrences for Ising integrals
• Rational approximations to π and some other numbers
• Arithmetic of linear forms involving odd zeta values
• SOME TRANSFORMATIONS OF GENERALIZED HYPERGEOMETRIC SERIES, AND CONTOURINTEGRALS OF BARNES'S TYPE
• Well-poised hypergeometric series for Diophantine problems of zeta values
• Ramanujan-type formulae and irrationality measures of some multiples of $ {\pi}$
• On simultaneous Diophantine approximations to \(\zeta(2)\) and \(\zeta(3)\)
• Approximations to di- and tri-logarithms
• WZ-Proofs of “Divergent” Ramanujan-Type Series

Cited In (12)

• Two integral transformations related to \(\zeta (2)\)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On the interplay between hypergeometric series, Fourier-Legendre expansions and Euler sums
• Report from the open problems session at OPSFA13
• Vectors of type II Hermite-Padé approximations and a new linear independence criterion
• On simultaneous Diophantine approximations to \(\zeta(2)\) and \(\zeta(3)\)
• Hypergeometric rational approximations to ζ(4)
• On the Dirichlet problem in rectangular domain for Lavrentiev-Bitsadze equation
• On the irrationality measure of \(\zeta (2)\)
• Abel's method on summation by parts and hypergeometric contiguous relations
• Irrationality via the Hypergeometric method

This page was built for publication: Two hypergeometric tales and a new irrationality measure of \(\zeta (2)\)

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q742923)