Wallis-Ramanujan-Schur-Feynman

One of the earliest examples of analytic representations for π is given by an infinite product provided by Wallis in 1655. The modern literature often presents this evaluation based on the integral formula In trying to understand the behavior of this integral when the integrand is replaced by the in...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American mathematical monthly 2010-08, Vol.117 (7), p.618-632
Hauptverfasser: Amdeberhan, T., Espinosa, O., Moll, V. H., Straub, A.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:One of the earliest examples of analytic representations for π is given by an infinite product provided by Wallis in 1655. The modern literature often presents this evaluation based on the integral formula In trying to understand the behavior of this integral when the integrand is replaced by the inverse of a product of distinct quadratic factors, the authors encounter relations to some formulas of Ramanujan, expressions involving Schur functions, and Matsubara sums that have appeared in the context of Feynman diagrams.
ISSN:0002-9890
1930-0972
DOI:10.4169/000298910X496741