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Connections of results in Harmonic analysis in the theory of Transcendental Numbers

An entire function $f$ is said to be of exponential type if there exist constants $c$ and $k$ such that $|f(z)|\leq c e^{k |z|}$. A famous result of Polya says if $f$ is an entire function of ...
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Transcendence of the $p$-adic number $\sum_{n\ge0}a^{2^n}$

Let $p$ a prime number and $a\in\overline{\mathbb Q}\subset\mathbb C_p$ be an algebraic $p$-adic number such that $|a|_p<1$. Is the number $s_a=\sum_{n\ge0}a^{2^n}$ transcendental over $\mathbb ...
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Transcendental Continued Fractions

Liouville famously showed the existence of a transcendental number by considering $\alpha =\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty10^{-n!}$ and showing that it did not satisfy 'Liouville's criterion' $|\alpha-p/q|\...
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Transcendental numbers that are "suspected" to be algebraically dependent without conjectured relation?

I am experimenting with a solver for finding algebraic dependencies and would like to test it on more data sets. Are there transcendental numbers that are "suspected" to be algebraically dependent ...
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Exponential of Liouville Numbers

By Mahler classification of Transcendental real numbers (into the sets of $S$-, $T$- and $U$-numbers), we know that Any Liouville number is a $U$-number. $\log \alpha$ is either an $S$- or a $T$-...
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Irrationality or transcendence of $i^{i\Omega}$ and $2^\Omega$, with $\Omega=W(1)$ and $W(x)$ being the main branch of Lambert $W$ function

In this post we denote the main (or principal) branch of the Lambert $W$ function as $W(x)$, I add as reference that Wikipedia has the article Lambert $W$ function. The particular value $W(1)=\Omega$ ...
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$\mathbb{Z}$-linear independence of arguments of units in non-CM number fields

Playing a little bit with Groessencharacters a stumbled on the following question: Let $K$ be a non CM number field with $r_1$ real embeddings and $2r_2>0$ complex embeddings. Set $r=r_1+r_2-1$ ...
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quasi periodic continued fractions and powers of e, tanh, tan

It is well known that some transcendental numbers like e.g. rational multiples of $e^{2/n}$ with $n\in\mathbb N $, when written as regular continued fractions (R.C.F.), yield what can be called a ...
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Generalizations of Lüroth theorem

Let $k$ be an arbitrary field (I do not mind to take $k=\mathbb{C}$, if things are easier in this case). A more general version of Lüroth theorem says that a field $L$, $k \subset L \subset k(x,y)$, ...
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Siegel's method for transcendence measure quoted by Mahler

In "Zur Approximation der Exponentialfunktion und des Logarithmus. Teil II" Malher wrote (footnote 5 page 148) that the constant appearing in Satz 4 can be improved by a method communicated ...
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Liouville numbers with some "special" convergents

Recall that a real number $\ell$ is called a Liouville number, if there exists an infinite sequence of rational numbers $(p_n/q_n)_n$ for which $$ 0<\left|\ell-\frac{p_n}{q_n}\right|<\dfrac{1}{...
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Nielsen--Schreier for fields

Is it true that a subextension of a purely transcendental extension is itself purely transcendental? In symbols, suppose we have field extensions $M/L/K$, with $M/K$ purely transcendental. Must $L/K$ ...
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Analytical proof of an equation that includes transcendental functions

Can anyone help me find an analytical proof for the following statement: for $$t \in ]0,1[\setminus\{t_0\},\quad t' \in ]0,1[\setminus\{t_0\},\quad t\neq t',\quad k_1,k_2 \in \mathbf{R}^*,\quad t_0 \...
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Transcendence of functions and change of field of definition

Suppose the one has a sequence of rational functions $Q_n(z)\in\mathbb Q(z)$. Let $p$ be a prime number. Suppose that that there exists an infinite subset $X$ of $\mathbb Q_p$ such that: the ...
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Transcendence à la Liouville

Let $\alpha\in\overline{\mathbb Q}^*$. How to prove that for a non ultimately constant sequence $(\varepsilon_n)_n$ with $\varepsilon_n\in\{0,1\}$, the number $\sum_{n\ge0}\frac{\varepsilon_n}{\alpha^{...
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Transcendence of Euler series

Is the Euler series $\sum_{n\ge0}n!X^n\in\mathbb C[[X]]$ transcendental over $\mathbb C(X)$?
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