International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 17 (1994), Issue 2, Pages 369-378
doi:10.1155/S0161171294000517
A generalized formula of Hardy
Institute of Advanced Studies, School of Mathematical Sciences, The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra 2601, Australia
Received 16 November 1992
Copyright © 1994 Geoffrey B. Campbell. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We give new formulae applicable to the theory of partitions. Recent work suggests they also relate to quasi-crystal structure and self-similarity. Other recent work has given continued fractions for the type of functions herein. Hardy originally gave such formulae as ours in early work on gap power series which led to his and Littlewood's “High Indices” Theorem. Over a decade ago, Mahler and then others proved results on irrationality of decimal fractions applicable to types of functions we consider.