A Lambert series is a series of the form
|
(1)
|
for .
Then
where
|
(4)
|
The particular case
is sometimes denoted
for
(Borwein and Borwein 1987, pp. 91 and 95), where is a q-polygamma
function. Special cases and related sums include
(Borwein and Borwein 1997, pp. 91-92), which arise in the reciprocal
Fibonacci and reciprocal Lucas constants.
Some beautiful series of this type include
where
is the Möbius function, is the totient function,
is the number of divisors
of ,
is the q-polygamma
function,
is the divisor function, is the number of representations of in the form where and are rational integers (Hardy and Wright 1979), is a Jacobi elliptic function (Bailey et al. 2006),
is the Liouville
function, and
is the least significant bit of .
See also
Divisor Function,
Erdős-Borwein Constant,
Lambda Function,
Möbius
Function,
Möbius Transform,
Reciprocal
Fibonacci Constant,
Reciprocal Lucas
Constant,
Totient Function
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