Irrationality of _q(1) and _q(2)

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2006.11.011MaRDI QIDQ996277zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kelly Postelmans, Walter Van Assche

Publication date 14 September 2007

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604312

zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-zeta functionlinear independencelittle \(q\)-Jacobi polynomialRodrigues formulasimultaneous rational approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Irrationality; linear independence over a field (11J72) Measures of irrationality and of transcendence (11J82) (zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions (11M41) Basic orthogonal polynomials and functions (Askey-Wilson polynomials, etc.) (33D45) Simultaneous approximation (41A28) Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05)

Abstract: In this paper we show how one can obtain simultaneous rational approximants for $zet{a}_q(1)$ and $zet{a}_q(2)$ with a common denominator by means of Hermite-Pade approximation using multiple little q-Jacobi polynomials and we show that properties of these rational approximants prove that 1, $zet{a}_q(1)$, $zet{a}_q(2)$ are linearly independent over the rationals. In particular this implies that $zet{a}_q(1)$ and $zet{a}_q(2)$ are irrational. Furthermore we give an upper bound for the measure of irrationality.

Review text

The article under review considerably extends the method of the second author from [\textit{W.~Van Assche}, Ramanujan J. 5, No.~3, 295--310 (2001; Zbl 1035.11032)] to use classical \(q\)-orthogonal polynomials in constructing rational approximations for certain \(q\)-series and proving arithmetic results for the values of the series. The main result of the present article is the linear independence over~\(\mathbb Q\) of the numbers \[ 1, \quad \zeta_q(1)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{q^n}{1-q^n} \quad\text{and}\quad \zeta_q(2)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{nq^n}{1-q^n} \] for \(q=1/p\), where \(p\in\{2,3,\dots\}\). This result is also obtained in the recent papers [\textit{P.~Bundschuh} and \textit{K.~Väänänen}, Result. Math. 47, No.~1-2, 33--44 (2005; Zbl 1128.11035); \textit{W.~Zudilin}, Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI 322, 107--124 (2005; Zbl 1088.11052)] but by different methods, although the constructed approximations are the same.

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