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Ramanujan-type series for $\frac {1}{\pi }$, revisited

Part of: Discontinuous groups and automorphic forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2023

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Dongxi Ye*
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School of Mathematics (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong 519082, China
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e-mail: yedx3@mail.sysu.edu.cn
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Abstract

In this note, we revisit Ramanujan-type series for $\frac {1}{\pi }$ and show how they arise from genus zero subgroups of $\mathrm {SL}_{2}(\mathbb {R})$ that are commensurable with $\mathrm {SL}_{2}(\mathbb {Z})$. As illustrations, we reproduce a striking formula of Ramanujan for $\frac {1}{\pi }$ and a recent result of Cooper et al., as well as derive a new rational Ramanujan-type series for $\frac {1}{\pi }$. As a byproduct, we obtain a Clausen-type formula in some general sense and reproduce a Clausen-type quadratic transformation formula closely related to the aforementioned formula of Ramanujan.

Keywords

Orbifold uniformizations1⁄πClausen-type transformations

MSC classification

Primary: 11F03: Modular and automorphic functions 11F23: Relations with algebraic geometry and topology

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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , June 2024 , pp. 350 - 368
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Canadian Mathematical Society

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Footnotes

This work was supported by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2023A1515010298).

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