On Several Results Associated with the Apéry-like Series

Abstract

In 1979, Apéry proved the irrationality of ζ(2) and ζ(3). Since then, there has been much research interest in investigating the Apéry-like series for values of Riemann zeta function, Ramanujan-like series for π and other infinite series involving central binomial coefficients. The purpose of this work is to present the first 20 results related to the Apéry-like series in the form of 4 lemmas, each containing 5 results. The Sherman’s results are applied to attain this. Thereafter, these 20 results are further used to establish up to 104 results pertaining to the Apéry-like series in the form of 4 theorems, with 26 results each. These findings are finally been described in terms of the generalized hypergeometric functions. Symmetry occurs naturally in the generalized hypergeometric functions.

Keywords

• central binomail coefficients
• reciprocals
• Apéry-like series
• combinatorics
• pochhammer symbol
• gamma function