A246966 Decimal expansion of H_2, the analog of Madelung's constant for the planar hexagonal lattice.

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

Offset

1,2

Comments

The ionic hexagonal (triangular) lattice considered here consists of three interpenetrating hexagonal lattices of ions with charges +1, -1, 0. Equivalently, one may consider the honeycomb net consisting of two hexagonal lattices of ions with charges +1 and -1 (the h-BN layer structure). In any case, this lattice sum is based on the nearest neighbor distance (not the length of the period of the ionic crystal structure, which is sqrt(3) times greater). - Andrey Zabolotskiy, Jun 21 2022

References

Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Sections 1.10 Madelung's constant, p. 78.

Links

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

David Borwein, Jonathan M. Borwein and Keith F. Taylor, Convergence of lattice sums and Madelung's constant, J. Math. Phys. 26 (1985), 2999-3009.

Eric Weisstein's MathWorld, Madelung Constants

Formula

H_2 = (-3 + sqrt(3))*zeta(1/2)*((1 - sqrt(2))*zeta(1/2, 1/3) + zeta(1/2, 1/6)), where zeta(s,a) gives the generalized Riemann zeta function.

Example

1.54221972170650525853141576436424529561948...

Mathematica

H2 = (-3 + Sqrt[3])*Zeta[1/2]*((1 - Sqrt[2])*Zeta[1/2, 1/3] + Zeta[1/2, 1/6]); RealDigits[H2, 10, 103] // First

Prog

(PARI) (sqrt(3)-3)*zeta(1/2)*((1-sqrt(2))*zetahurwitz(1/2, 1/3) + zetahurwitz(1/2, 1/6)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 31 2018

Crossrefs

Cf. A088537, A085469, A090734, A247040.

Sequence in context: A102593 A090462 A375708 * A081749 A370969 A074825

Adjacent sequences: A246963 A246964 A246965 * A246967 A246968 A246969

Keyword

nonn,cons,easy

Author

Jean-François Alcover, Sep 10 2014

Status

approved