OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
The rational numbers SGGS = A264148/A264149 (SGGS stands for 'Stirling Generalized Gamma Series') are a supersequence of the coefficients in Stirling's asymptotic series for the Gamma function A001163/A001164 and of an asymptotic expansion of Ramanujan A090804/A065973, further they appear in scaled form in an expansion of -W_{-1}(-e^{-1-x^2/2}) where W_{-1} is Lambert W function A005447/A005446.
Ramanujan's asymptotic expansion theta(n) = 1/3+4/(135n)-8/(2835n^2)- ... is considered in the literature also in the form 1-theta(n) (see for example formula (5) in the Choi link). It is this form to which we refer here.
LINKS
G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..360
K. P. Choi, On the medians of gamma distributions and an equation of Ramanujan, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 121:1 (May, 1994), pp. 245-251. [From Vladimir Reshetnikov]
G. Nemes, On the coefficients of the asymptotic expansion of n!, J. Integer Seqs. 13 (2010), 5. [From Vladimir Reshetnikov]
FORMULA
Let SGGS(n) = h(n)*doublefactorial(n-1) where h(n) = 1 for n<=0 and for n>0 defined by the recurrence (h(k-1)/k - Sum_{j=1..k-1}((h(k-j)*h(j))/(j+1))/ (1+1/(k+1))) then a(n) = numerator(SGGS(n)).
MAPLE
MATHEMATICA
h[k_] := h[k] = If[k <= 0, 1, (h[k - 1]/k - Sum[h[k - j]*h[j]/(j + 1), {j, 1, k - 1}]) / (1 + 1/(k + 1))]; a[n_] := h[n]* Factorial2[n - 1] // Numerator; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 24}]
PROG
CROSSREFS
A264148(n) = numerator(SGGS(n)).
A264149(n) = denominator(SGGS(n)).
A001163(n) = numerator(SGGS(2*n)) = numerator(SGGS(2*n)/2^(n+1)).
A001164(n) = denominator(SGGS(2*n)).
A090804(n) = numerator(SGGS(2*n+1)).
A065973(n) = denominator(SGGS(2*n+1)) = denominator(SGGS(2*n+1)/2^(n+1)).
A005447(n+1) = numerator(SGGS(n)/2^(n+1)).
A264150(n) = numerator(SGGS(2*n+1)/2^(n+1)).
KEYWORD
sign,frac
AUTHOR
Peter Luschny, Nov 05 2015
STATUS
approved