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Algebraicity of a ratio of values of the Gamma function

MathOverflow Asked by JeCl on November 3, 2021

The following ratio:

$$frac{Gamma(2/5)^3}{piGamma(1/5)}$$

has kept appearing in my research, and the only thing I know about its value is that it is $cong 0.7567213$, whence the following two questions:

Is the value of this ratio an algebraic number?

What is the exact value of this ratio?

One Answer

This number is expected to be transcendental. This answer gives a conceptual framework for studying the algebraicity of such $Gamma$ ratios, and in fact a completely explicit criterion (which is only conjectural, when it comes to establishing transcendence).

Your number is equal to begin{equation*} frac{Gamma(2/5)^3}{Gamma(1/5)^2 Gamma(4/5)} end{equation*} up to multiplication by an algebraic number. This ratio is described by the vector of exponents $(-2,3,0,-1)$ and the criterion there is not met for $u=2$. In fancy terms, the Bernoulli distribution $B_1$ does not vanish on this vector.

Answered by François Brunault on November 3, 2021

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