Conservative Matrix Fields generalize Apéry-type ratios of D-finite sequences to several dimensions and conjecturally have direction-continuous convergence and irrationality measures.
Tweaking the Beukers Integrals In Search of More Miraculous Irrationality Proofs A La Apery
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There are only aleph-zero rational numbers, while there are 2 to the power aleph-zero real numbers. Hence the probability that a randomly chosen real number would be rational is 0. Yet proving rigorously that any specific, natural, real constant, is irrational is usually very hard, witness that there are still no proofs of the irrationality of the Euler-Mascheroni constant, the Catalan constant, or Zeta(5). Inspired by Frits Beukers' elegant rendition of Apery's seminal proofs of the irrationality of Zeta(2) and Zeta(3), and heavily using algorithmic proof theory, we systematically searched for other similar integrals, that lead to irrationality proofs. We found quite a few candidates for such proofs, including the square-root of Pi times Gamma(7/3)/Gamma(-1/6) and Gamma(19/6)/Gamma(8/3) divided by the square-root of Pi.
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On Conservative Matrix Fields: Continuous Asymptotics and Arithmetic
Conservative Matrix Fields generalize Apéry-type ratios of D-finite sequences to several dimensions and conjecturally have direction-continuous convergence and irrationality measures.