On gamma quotients and infinite products
arXiv:1309.3455 · doi:10.1016/j.aam.2013.07.003
Abstract
Convergent infinite products, indexed by all natural numbers, in which each factor is a rational function of the index, can always be evaluated in terms of finite products of gamma functions. This goes back to Euler. A purpose of this note is to demonstrate the usefulness of this fact through a number of diverse applications involving multiplicative partitions, entries in Ramanujan's notebooks, the Chowla--Selberg formula, and the Thue--Morse sequence. In addition, we propose a numerical method for efficiently evaluating more general infinite series such as the slowly convergent Kepler--Bouwkamp constant.
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