Padé continued-fraction coefficient matching conjecture

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Let ama_m be the sequence of numbers generated by Theorem 3, and let gm(n)g_m(n) be the associated finite continued fractions. Let B(n)B(n) denote the continued fraction obtained from the Stirling series by the quotient-difference algorithm, with numerator sequence (bm)(b_m).

Coefficient matching conjecture. In the limit as mm tends to infinity, the continued fraction gm(n)g_m(n) agrees with B(n)B(n); equivalently, their numerator sequences satisfy

am=bm.a_m=b_m.

This conjecture arises from the observed agreement between the coefficients produced by the telescoping method and those of the SS-fraction for the diagonal Padé approximants to the Stirling series. No proof or disproof is supplied in the excerpt, so the conjecture remains open.

References

Primary source

Gaurav Bhatnagar and Krishnan Rajkumar, “Telescoping continued fractions for the error term in Stirling's formula”, arXiv:2204.00962 (2023).

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