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A391707
Decimal expansion of the sum of the reciprocals of the odd-indexed Pell numbers.
4
1, 2, 4, 1, 6, 2, 5, 4, 0, 7, 5, 2, 8, 3, 8, 4, 3, 5, 6, 9, 5, 6, 5, 0, 9, 4, 6, 8, 3, 4, 0, 9, 2, 1, 4, 3, 7, 8, 6, 7, 6, 5, 8, 5, 4, 9, 5, 2, 4, 2, 3, 7, 9, 9, 7, 9, 1, 6, 6, 9, 3, 9, 2, 8, 1, 0, 3, 7, 0, 6, 8, 5, 3, 1, 0, 2, 8, 5, 7, 1, 4, 5, 4, 7, 7, 3, 4, 0, 7, 2, 6, 1, 8, 1, 7, 0, 8, 7, 3, 5, 5, 0, 0, 8, 6
OFFSET
1,2
REFERENCES
Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein, Pi and the AGM, Wiley, 1987, section 3.7, pp. 91-101.
LINKS
A. F. Horadam, Elliptic Functions and Lambert Series in the Summation of Reciprocals in Certain Recurrence-Generated Sequences, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2 (1988), pp. 98-114.
R. S. Melham, Lambert Series and Elliptic Functions and Certain Reciprocal Sums, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3 (1999), pp. 208-212.
TuAnh Gia Nguyen, Fibonacci and Lucas series with elliptic functions, Master Thesis, San Jose State University, 2005, p. 90, eq. (3.27).
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Jacobi Theta Functions.
Wikipedia, Theta function.
FORMULA
Equals Sum_{k>=1} 1/A000129(2*k-1) = Sum_{k>=1} 1/A001653(k).
Equals theta_2((sqrt(2)-1)^2)^2/sqrt(2), where theta_2 is a Jacobi theta function.
EXAMPLE
1.24162540752838435695650946834092143786765854952423...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[EllipticTheta[2, (Sqrt[2] - 1)^2]^2/Sqrt[2], 10, 120][[1]]
PROG
(PARI) theta_2(q) = {my(x = -I*log(q)/Pi); 2*eta(2*x, 1)^2/eta(x, 1); }
theta_2((sqrt(2)-1)^2)^2/sqrt(2)
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Amiram Eldar, Dec 18 2025
STATUS
approved