Exploring General Apéry Limits via the Zudilin-Straub t-transform

05/26/2022
by   Robert Dougherty-Bliss, et al.
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Inspired by a recent beautiful construction of Armin Straub and Wadim Zudilin, that 'tweaked' the sum of the s^th powers of the n-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 Apéry limits. While getting what we call "major Apéry miracles", proving irrationality of the associated constants (i.e. the so-called Apéry limits) is very rare, we do get, every time, at least a "minor Apéry miracle" where an explicit constant, defined as an (extremely slowly-converging) limit of some explicit sequence, is expressed as an Apéry limit of some recurrence, with some initial conditions, thus enabling a very fast computation of that constant, with exponentially decaying error.

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