OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
From Petros Hadjicostas, Jun 01 2020: (Start)
The calculations in this sequence and in A319568 are needed for the estimation of the Shapiro cyclic sum constant lambda = A086277 = phi(0)/2 = A245330/2. This was done in Drinfel'd (1971).
Similar calculations were done by Elbert (1973) for the Shapiro cyclic sum constant mu = psi(0) = A086278.
See my comments in sequence A319568. The PARI program below is based on those comments and may be used to calculate c. (End)
REFERENCES
Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Section 3.1, Shapiro-Drinfeld Constant, p. 209.
LINKS
V. G. Drinfel'd, A cyclic inequality, Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 9 (1971), 68-71.
Á. Elbert, On a cyclic inequality, Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 4 (1973), 163-168.
Á. Elbert, On a cyclic inequality, Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 4 (1973), 163-168.
Petros Hadjicostas, Plot of the curves y = exp(-x) and y = 2/(exp(x) + exp(x/2)) and their common tangent, 2020.
R. A. Rankin, 2743. An inequality, Mathematical Gazette, 42(339) (1958), 39-40.
H. S. Shapiro, Proposed problem for solution 4603, American Mathematical Monthly, 61(8) (1954), 571.
H. S. Shapiro, Solution to Problem 4603: An invalid inequality, American Mathematical Monthly, 63(3) (1956), 191-192; counterexample provided by M. J. Lighthill.
B. A. Troesch, The validity of Shapiro's cyclic inequality, Mathematics of Computation, 53 (1989), 657-664.
Eric Weisstein's MathWorld, Shapiro's Cyclic Sum Constant.
FORMULA
b = -0.2008110658618... (A319568).
c = 0.1551949747226... .
1 - b + c = 2*exp(c)/(exp(b) + exp(b/2)).
exp(-c) * (c + 1) = 0.989133634446... (phi(0)).
Equals -1 - LambertW(-1, -exp(-1)*A245330). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Sep 26 2018
EXAMPLE
0.1551949747226...
PROG
(PARI) c(b) = b + exp(b/2)/(2*exp(b)+exp(b/2))
c(solve(b=-2, 2, exp(-c(b))*(1-b+c(b))-2/(exp(b)+exp(b/2)))) \\ Petros Hadjicostas, Jun 02 2020
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Seiichi Manyama, Sep 23 2018
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Vaclav Kotesovec, Sep 26 2018
STATUS
approved