A gamma-ratio continued fraction formula with four gamma-function pairs

Let x,l,n,ηCx,l,n,\eta\in\mathbb{C}, and define PP by

P=Γ(x+l+n+η+14)Γ(x+lnη+14)Γ(x+l+nη+34)Γ(x+ln+η+34)Γ(xl+nη+34)Γ(xln+η+34)Γ(xl+n+η+14)Γ(xlnη+14).P=\frac{\Gamma\left(\frac{x+l+n+\eta+1}{4}\right)\Gamma\left(\frac{x+l-n-\eta+1}{4}\right)}{\Gamma\left(\frac{x+l+n-\eta+3}{4}\right)\Gamma\left(\frac{x+l-n+\eta+3}{4}\right)}\frac{\Gamma\left(\frac{x-l+n-\eta+3}{4}\right)\Gamma\left(\frac{x-l-n+\eta+3}{4}\right)}{\Gamma\left(\frac{x-l+n+\eta+1}{4}\right)\Gamma\left(\frac{x-l-n-\eta+1}{4}\right)}.

Suppose that xx is complex with Re(x)>0\operatorname{Re}(x)>0, or that either nn or η\eta is an odd integer, or that ll is an even integer. The four-pair gamma-ratio continued-fraction conjecture. Then

1P1+P=lxnη+Km=1(ambm(x)),\frac{1-P}{1+P}=\frac{l}{x-n\eta+\mathop{\mathrm{K}}_{m=1}^{\infty}\left(\frac{a_m}{b_m(x)}\right)},

where

a2m=(2m)2l2,a2m1=((2m1)2n2)((2m1)2η2)(2m1)2,a_{2m}=(2m)^2-l^2,\qquad a_{2m-1}=\frac{\left((2m-1)^2-n^2\right)\left((2m-1)^2-\eta^2\right)}{(2m-1)^2}, b2m(x)=xnη2m+1,b2m1(x)=x+nη2m1.b_{2m}(x)=x-\frac{n\eta}{2m+1},\qquad b_{2m-1}(x)=x+\frac{n\eta}{2m-1}.

This is an open problem in the paper's study of continued-fraction expansions for ratios of gamma functions; no proof or disproof is supplied in the given material.

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Xiaodong Cao, Yoshio Tanigawa and Wenguang Zhai, “Continued fraction formulae involving ratios of three gamma functions”, arXiv:2111.14143 (2021).

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