A219336 Decimal expansion of the maximum M(6) of the ratio (Sum_{k=1..6} (x(1)*x(2)*...*x(k))^(1/k))/(x(1) + ... + x(6)) taken over x(1), ..., x(6) > 0.

1, 5, 3, 7, 9, 3, 7, 5, 5, 6, 5, 2, 0, 0, 3, 4, 9, 3, 1, 3, 6, 8, 1, 5, 8, 7, 1, 6, 0, 2, 6, 3, 2, 6, 8, 1, 5, 6, 0, 8, 6, 4, 5, 0, 8, 9, 8, 6, 3, 2, 1, 9, 6, 3, 3, 3, 2, 4, 6, 4, 3, 1, 1, 6, 3, 0, 0, 9, 2, 7, 6, 4, 1, 4, 2, 6, 1, 2, 9, 3, 4, 2, 5, 2, 3, 7, 7, 9, 3, 8, 0, 1, 3, 1, 4, 4, 2, 2, 9, 9, 5, 1, 9

Offset

1,2

Comments

The maximum M(n) of the ratio (Sum_{k=1..n} (x(1)*x(2)*...*x(k))^(1/k))/(x(1) + ... + x(n)) taken over x(1), ..., x(n) > 0 is discussed in A219245 - see also the paper of Witula et al. for the proofs.

The decimal expansions of M(4) and M(5) are A219245 and A219246, respectively.

References

R. Witula, D. Jama, D. Slota, E. Hetmaniok, Finite version of Carleman's and Knopp's inequalities, Zeszyty naukowe Politechniki Slaskiej (Gliwice, Poland) 92 (2010), 93-96.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..103.

Steven R. Finch, Carleman's inequality, 2013. [Cached copy, with permission of the author]

Yu-Dong Wu, Zhi-Hua Zhang and Zhi-Gang Wang, The Best Constant for Carleman's Inequality of Finite Type, Acta Mathematica Academiae Paedagogicae Nyiregyhaziensis, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2008.

Example

1.537937556520034931368158716...

Mathematica

RealDigits[c6/.FindRoot[{1 + x2/2 + x3/3 + x4/4 + x5/5 + x6/6 == c6, x2/2 + x3/3 + x4/4 + x5/5 + x6/6 == c6*x2^2, x3/3 + x4/4 + x5/5 + x6/6 == c6*x3^3/x2^2, x4/4 + x5/5 + x6/6 == c6*x4^4/x3^3, x5/5 + x6/6 == c6*x5^5/x4^4, x6/6 == c6*x6^6/x5^5}, {{c6, 3/2}, {x2, 1/2}, {x3, 1/2}, {x4, 1/2}, {x5, 1/2}, {x6, 1/2}}, WorkingPrecision->120], 10, 105][[1]] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, Oct 27 2014 *)

Crossrefs

Cf. A219245, A219246, A249403.

Sequence in context: A366345 A109694 A259068 * A280235 A135765 A222598

Adjacent sequences: A219333 A219334 A219335 * A219337 A219338 A219339

Keyword

nonn,cons

Author

Roman Witula, Nov 18 2012

Status

approved