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Séminaire de Théorie des Nombres

Irrationality measures for gamma quotients

Henri Cohen

( IMB )

Salle de conférences

12 décembre 2025 à 14:00

We give 39 rapidly convergent continued fractions for Chowla-Selberg gamma quotients, and deduce good irrationality measures for 20 of them, including for CS(3)=(Γ(1/3)/Γ(2/3))3\operatorname{CS}(-3)=(\Gamma(1/3)/\Gamma(2/3))^3, for a1/4CS(4)=a1/4(Γ(1/4)/Γ(3/4))2a^{1/4}\operatorname{CS}(-4)=a^{1/4}(\Gamma(1/4)/\Gamma(3/4))^2 with a=12a =12 and a=1/5a=1/5, and for CS(7)=Γ(1/7)Γ(2/7)Γ(4/7)/(Γ(3/7)Γ(5/7)Γ(6/7))\operatorname{CS}(-7)=\Gamma(1/7)\Gamma(2/7)\Gamma(4/7)/(\Gamma(3/7)\Gamma(5/7)\Gamma(6/7)).

These appear to be the first proved and reasonable irrationality measures for Γ\Gamma quotients.