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Asymptotic Formulas for Two Continued Fractions in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook
Department of Mathematics 1409 West Green Street, University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801, USA, berndt{at}math.uiuc.edu
Department of Mathematics 1409 West Green Street, University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Received 12 September 2000. Revision received 22 August 2001.
On page 45 of his lost notebook, Ramanujan recorded two asymptotic formulas for two continued fractions involving the Riemann zeta-function and Dirichlet L-functions. The paper proves a more general theorem and derives Ramanujan's claims as a corollary of the theorem.
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