A321939 Numerators in the asymptotic expansion of the Maclaurin coefficients of exp(x/(1-x)).

1, -5, -479, -15313, 710401, -3532731539, -1439747442109, -34886932972781, -171887027703456763, -6317295244143234168127, -2059266220658860906379923, -16155159358654324183625719723, -125609753430605939189919003924509

Offset

0,2

Comments

If r(n) = A067764(n)/A067653(n) then r(n)/(exp(2*sqrt(n))/(2*n^(3/4)*sqrt(Pi*e))) has an asymptotic expansion in ascending powers of 1/sqrt(n) whose coefficients are rational numbers 1, -5/48, etc. The sequence gives the numerators of these rational numbers.

Another expression for r(n), n > 0, is r(n) = M(n+1,2,1)/e, where M(a,b,z) = 1F1(a;b;z) is a confluent hypergeometric function (Kummer function).

The same rational numbers, except for signs, occur in the asymptotic expansion of the Maclaurin coefficients of exp(1/(1-x))*E1(1/(1-x)), where E1(x) is an exponential integral. See Lemmas 1-2 and Theorem 5 of the preprint by Brent et al. (2018).

References

L. J. Slater, Confluent Hypergeometric Functions, Cambridge University Press, 1960.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..12.

Richard P. Brent, M. L. Glasser, Anthony J. Guttmann, A Conjectured Integer Sequence Arising From the Exponential Integral, arXiv:1812.00316 [math.NT], 2018.

N. M. Temme, Remarks on Slater's asymptotic expansions of Kummer functions for large values of the a-parameter, Adv. Dyn. Syst. Appl., 8 (2013), 365-377.

Formula

A formula is given in Theorem 5, and a recurrence in Lemma 7, of Brent et al. (2018).

Example

The asymptotic expansion is 1 - 5*h/48 - 479*h^2/4608 - 15313*h^3/3317760 + ..., where h = 1/sqrt(n).

Crossrefs

The denominators are A321940. The formula for A321939(n)/A321940(n) in Theorem 5 of Brent et al. (2018) uses A321937(n)/A321938(n). The sequence A321941 can be defined using A321939 and A321940.

Sequence in context: A320958 A262384 A024071 * A198978 A206502 A198249

Adjacent sequences: A321936 A321937 A321938 * A321940 A321941 A321942

Keyword

sign,frac

Author

Richard P. Brent, Dec 05 2018

Status

approved