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On the irrationality of the infinite product Πj=0 (1+qjr+q−2js)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 1999

PING ZHOU
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada, V5A 1S6; e-mail: pzhou@cecm.sfu.ca

Abstract

We prove that if q is an integer greater than one, r and s are any positive rationals, then

formula here

is irrational and is not a Liouville number.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The Cambridge Philosophical Society 1999

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