A158934 Decimal expansion of xi = (cos(Pi/5) - 1/2) / (sin(Pi/5) + 1/2).

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Author

Benoit Cloitre, Mar 31 2009

Keywords

• cons
• nonn

Comments

This constant xi arises in the Davenport-Heilbronn zeta-function Z(s)=Sum_{k>=1} b(k)/k^s where b(k) is the 5-periodic sequence with period [1,xi,-xi,0]. Z satisfies a functional equation (like zeta) but does not satisfy RH. Some nontrivial zeros are off the critical line (see reference).

Examples

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References

• Peter Borwein, Stephen Choi, Brendan Rooney and Andrea Weirathmueller, The Riemann Hypothesis, Springer, 2009, pp. 136-137.

Links

• Bruce C. Berndt, Heng Huat Chan and Liang-Cheng Zhang, Explicit evaluations of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, Vol. 480 (1996), pp. 141-160, eq. (1.1).
• Harold Davenport and Hans Heilbronn, On the zeros of certain Dirichlet series, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Vol. s1-11, No. 3 (1936), pp. 181-185.
• Harold Davenport and Hans Heilbronn, On the zeros of certain Dirichlet series (Second paper), Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Vol. s1-11, No. 4 (1936), pp. 307-312.

Crossrefs

Cf. A001622, A158241, A188593, A019845.

Programs

Mathematica

(Sqrt[5]-1) / (2+Sqrt[10-2*Sqrt[5]]) // RealDigits[#, 10, 104]& // First (* Jean-François Alcover, Mar 04 2013 *)

PARI

xi=(cos(Pi/5)-1/2)/(sin(Pi/5)+1/2)

Formula

Equals (sqrt(10-2*sqrt(5))-2)/(sqrt(5)-1).

Equals (A001622-1)/(2*A019845+1). - R. J. Mathar, Apr 02 2009

Equals sqrt((5 + sqrt(5))/2) - (sqrt(5) + 1)/2 = A188593 - A001622. - Amiram Eldar, Jan 23 2022