n = 1 ∑ ∞ csc 2 ( ω π n ) = π A + B
In the above equation, ω = − 2 1 + 2 3 i and, A and B are algebraic numbers . Find B 2 A 2 .
Note: i = − 1 is the imaginary unit.
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The actual answer is π 3 1 − 6 1
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Fixed. Since I have now shown you how to do it, maybe you could do the second one yourself.
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Thank you, although I doubt that I'll be able to do the second part. I'm a first year college student, and I have a very little knowledge about elliptic functions. We learn very basic real analysis and linear algebra here, in the first year.
I found the sums in the following paper:
MODULAR TRANSFORMATIONS AND GENERALIZATIONS OF SEVERAL FORMULAE OF RAMANUJAN
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Firstly, note that sin 2 ( ω π n ) = { − sinh 2 ( 2 1 3 π n ) cosh 2 ( 2 1 3 π n ) n e v e n n o d d and hence n = 1 ∑ ∞ csc 2 ( ω π n ) = n = 1 ∑ ∞ s e c h 2 ( 3 π ( n − 2 1 ) ) − n = 1 ∑ ∞ c o s e c h 2 ( 3 π n ) = S 1 − S 2 To evaluate S 1 and S 2 , we need to handle so-called singular values of the complete elliptic integral of the first kind K ( k ) = ∫ 0 2 1 π 1 − k 2 sin 2 θ d θ 0 < k < 1 and its complementary function K ′ ( k ) = K ( 1 − k 2 ) A singular value k r of the elliptic integral is one for which K ( k r ) K ′ ( k r ) = r r ∈ N We are interested in k 3 = 2 2 1 ( 3 − 1 ) , and we have an expression for the complete elliptic integral of the second kind E ( k 3 ) = 4 3 K ( k 3 ) π + 2 3 3 + 1 K ( k 3 ) given the value of the elliptic alpha function α ( 3 ) = 2 1 ( 3 − 1 ) . In fact it is possible to express K ( k 3 ) exactly in terms of Gamma functions, K ( k 3 ) = 2 3 7 π 3 4 1 Γ 3 ( 3 1 ) but this is not needed here.
Using the results of this paper and the above observations (note that this paper writes elliptic integral expressions in term of m = k 2 instead of k ), we obtain S 1 S 2 = π 2 2 K ( k 3 ) E ( k 3 ) − 2 ( 1 − k 3 2 ) π 2 K ( k 3 ) 2 = 2 π 3 1 − 2 3 1 π 2 K ( k 3 ) 2 = 6 1 + 3 2 ( 2 − k 3 2 ) π 2 K ( k 3 ) 2 − π 2 2 K ( k 3 ) E ( k 3 ) = 6 1 − 2 π 3 1 − 2 3 1 π 2 K ( k 3 ) 2 so that n = 1 ∑ ∞ csc 2 ( ω π n ) = S 1 − S 2 = π 3 1 − 6 1 Thus A = 3 1 and B = − 6 1 , so that B 2 A 2 = 1 2 .