Jacobi-Type Continued Fractions for the Ordinary Generating Functions of
Generalized Factorial Functions
Maxie D. Schmidt
University of Washington
Department of Mathematics
Padelford Hall
Seattle, WA 98195
USA
Abstract:
The article studies a class of generalized factorial functions and
symbolic product sequences through Jacobi-type continued fractions
(J-fractions) that formally enumerate the typically divergent ordinary
generating functions of these sequences. The rational convergents of
these generalized J-fractions provide formal power series
approximations to the ordinary generating functions that enumerate many
specific classes of factorial-related integer product sequences. The
article also provides applications to a number of specific factorial
sum and product identities, new integer congruence relations satisfied
by generalized factorial-related product sequences, the Stirling
numbers of the first kind, and the r-order harmonic numbers,
as well as new generating functions for the sequences of binomials,
mp - 1, among
several other notable motivating examples given as applications of the
new results proved in the article.
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(Concerned with sequences
A000043
A000108
A000142
A000165
A000166
A000178
A000215
A000225
A000407
A000668
A000918
A000978
A000984
A001008
A001044
A001097
A001142
A001147
A001220
A001348
A001359
A001448
A002109
A002144
A002234
A002496
A002805
A002981
A002982
A003422
A005109
A005165
A005384
A006512
A006882
A007406
A007407
A007408
A007409
A007540
A007559
A007619
A007661
A007662
A007696
A008275
A008277
A008292
A008544
A008554
A009120
A009445
A010050
A019434
A022004
A022005
A023200
A023201
A023202
A023203
A024023
A024036
A024049
A027641
A027642
A032031
A033312
A034176
A046118
A046124
A046133
A047053
A061062
A066802
A077800
A078303
A080075
A085157
A085158
A087755
A088164
A094638
A100043
A100089
A100732
A104344
A105278
A123176
A130534
A157250
A166351
A184877.)
Received January 5 2016; revised versions received March 13 2016; April 7 2016; December 24 2016; December 29 2016.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, January 8 2017.
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