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Mathworld's discussion of the Gamma function has the pleasant formula:

$$ \frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{24})\Gamma(\frac{11}{24})}{\Gamma(\frac{5}{24})\Gamma(\frac{7}{24})} = \sqrt{3}\cdot \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{3}} $$

This may have been computed algorithmically, according to the page. So I ask how one might derive this?


My immediate thought was to look at $(\mathbb{Z}/24\mathbb{Z})^\times = \big( \{ 1,5,7,11 \big| 13, 17, 19 , 23 \}, \times \big)$ where $1,5,7,11$ are relatively prime to 24. And the other half?

We could try to use the mirror formula $$ \Gamma(z) \Gamma(1-z) = \frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi z)} $$ or the Euler beta integral but nothing has come up yet: $$ \int_0^1 x^a (1-x)^b \, dx = \frac{\Gamma(a) \Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(a+b)} $$

I am lucky the period integral of some Riemann surface will be the ratio of Gamma functions: $$ \int_0^1 (x - a)^{1/12} (x - 0)^{11/12} (x - 1)^{-5/12} (x - d)^{-7/12} \, dx $$ these integrals appear in the theory of hypergeometric function


In light of comments, I found a paper of Benedict Gross and the paper of Selberg and Chowla

$$ F( \tfrac{1}{4},\tfrac{1}{4};1;\tfrac{1}{64}) = \sqrt{\frac{2}{7\pi}} \times \left[\frac{ \Gamma(\frac{1}{7})\Gamma(\frac{2}{7})\Gamma(\frac{4}{7}) }{ \Gamma(\frac{3}{7})\Gamma(\frac{5}{7})\Gamma(\frac{6}{7}) }\right]^{1/2} $$

so in our case we are looking at quadratic residues mod 12. However, however it does not tell us that LHS evaluates to RHS.

Mathworld's discussion of the Gamma function has the pleasant formula:

$$ \frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{24})\Gamma(\frac{11}{24})}{\Gamma(\frac{5}{24})\Gamma(\frac{7}{24})} = \sqrt{3}\cdot \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{3}} $$

This may have been computed algorithmically, according to the page. So I ask how one might derive this?


My immediate thought was to look at $(\mathbb{Z}/24\mathbb{Z})^\times = \big( \{ 1,5,7,11 \big| 13, 17, 19 , 23 \}, \times \big)$ where $1,5,7,11$ are relatively prime to 24. And the other half?

We could try to use the mirror formula $$ \Gamma(z) \Gamma(1-z) = \frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi z)} $$ or the Euler beta integral but nothing has come up yet: $$ \int_0^1 x^a (1-x)^b \, dx = \frac{\Gamma(a) \Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(a+b)} $$

I am lucky the period integral of some Riemann surface will be the ratio of Gamma functions: $$ \int_0^1 (x - a)^{1/12} (x - 0)^{11/12} (x - 1)^{-5/12} (x - d)^{-7/12} \, dx $$ these integrals appear in the theory of hypergeometric function

Mathworld's discussion of the Gamma function has the pleasant formula:

$$ \frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{24})\Gamma(\frac{11}{24})}{\Gamma(\frac{5}{24})\Gamma(\frac{7}{24})} = \sqrt{3}\cdot \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{3}} $$

This may have been computed algorithmically, according to the page. So I ask how one might derive this?


My immediate thought was to look at $(\mathbb{Z}/24\mathbb{Z})^\times = \big( \{ 1,5,7,11 \big| 13, 17, 19 , 23 \}, \times \big)$ where $1,5,7,11$ are relatively prime to 24. And the other half?

We could try to use the mirror formula $$ \Gamma(z) \Gamma(1-z) = \frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi z)} $$ or the Euler beta integral but nothing has come up yet: $$ \int_0^1 x^a (1-x)^b \, dx = \frac{\Gamma(a) \Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(a+b)} $$

I am lucky the period integral of some Riemann surface will be the ratio of Gamma functions: $$ \int_0^1 (x - a)^{1/12} (x - 0)^{11/12} (x - 1)^{-5/12} (x - d)^{-7/12} \, dx $$ these integrals appear in the theory of hypergeometric function


In light of comments, I found a paper of Benedict Gross and the paper of Selberg and Chowla

$$ F( \tfrac{1}{4},\tfrac{1}{4};1;\tfrac{1}{64}) = \sqrt{\frac{2}{7\pi}} \times \left[\frac{ \Gamma(\frac{1}{7})\Gamma(\frac{2}{7})\Gamma(\frac{4}{7}) }{ \Gamma(\frac{3}{7})\Gamma(\frac{5}{7})\Gamma(\frac{6}{7}) }\right]^{1/2} $$

so in our case we are looking at quadratic residues mod 12. However, however it does not tell us that LHS evaluates to RHS.

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Mathworld's discussion of the Gamma function has the pleasant formula:

$$ \frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{24})\Gamma(\frac{11}{24})}{\Gamma(\frac{5}{24})\Gamma(\frac{7}{24})} = \sqrt{3}\cdot \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{3}} $$

This may have been computed algorithmically, according to the page. So I ask how one might derive this?


My immediate thought was to look at $(\mathbb{Z}/24\mathbb{Z})^\times = \big( \{ 1,5,7,11 \big| 13, 17, 19 , 23 \}, \times \big)$ where $1,5,7,11$ are relatively prime to 24. And the other half?

We could try to use the mirror formula $$ \Gamma(z) \Gamma(1-z) = \frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi z)} $$ or the Euler beta integral but nothing has come up yet: $$ \int_0^1 x^a (1-x)^b \, dx = \frac{\Gamma(a) \Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(a+b)} $$

I am lucky the period integral of some Riemann surface will be the ratio of Gamma functions: $$ \int_0^1 (x - a)^{1/12} (x - 0)^{11/12} (x - 1)^{-5/12} (x - d)^{-7/12} \, dx $$ these integrals appear in the theory of hypergeometric function

Mathworld's discussion of the Gamma function has the pleasant formula:

$$ \frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{24})\Gamma(\frac{11}{24})}{\Gamma(\frac{5}{24})\Gamma(\frac{7}{24})} = \sqrt{3}\cdot \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{3}} $$

This may have been computed algorithmically, according to the page. So I ask how one might derive this?


My immediate thought was to look at $(\mathbb{Z}/24\mathbb{Z})^\times = \big( \{ 1,5,7,11 \big| 13, 17, 19 , 23 \}, \times \big)$ where $1,5,7,11$ are relatively prime to 24. And the other half?

We could try to use the mirror formula $$ \Gamma(z) \Gamma(1-z) = \frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi z)} $$ or the Euler beta integral but nothing has come up yet: $$ \int_0^1 x^a (1-x)^b \, dx = \frac{\Gamma(a) \Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(a+b)} $$

Mathworld's discussion of the Gamma function has the pleasant formula:

$$ \frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{24})\Gamma(\frac{11}{24})}{\Gamma(\frac{5}{24})\Gamma(\frac{7}{24})} = \sqrt{3}\cdot \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{3}} $$

This may have been computed algorithmically, according to the page. So I ask how one might derive this?


My immediate thought was to look at $(\mathbb{Z}/24\mathbb{Z})^\times = \big( \{ 1,5,7,11 \big| 13, 17, 19 , 23 \}, \times \big)$ where $1,5,7,11$ are relatively prime to 24. And the other half?

We could try to use the mirror formula $$ \Gamma(z) \Gamma(1-z) = \frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi z)} $$ or the Euler beta integral but nothing has come up yet: $$ \int_0^1 x^a (1-x)^b \, dx = \frac{\Gamma(a) \Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(a+b)} $$

I am lucky the period integral of some Riemann surface will be the ratio of Gamma functions: $$ \int_0^1 (x - a)^{1/12} (x - 0)^{11/12} (x - 1)^{-5/12} (x - d)^{-7/12} \, dx $$ these integrals appear in the theory of hypergeometric function

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show that $ \frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{24})\Gamma(\frac{11}{24})}{\Gamma(\frac{5}{24})\Gamma(\frac{7}{24})} = \sqrt{3}\cdot \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{3}} $

Mathworld's discussion of the Gamma function has the pleasant formula:

$$ \frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{24})\Gamma(\frac{11}{24})}{\Gamma(\frac{5}{24})\Gamma(\frac{7}{24})} = \sqrt{3}\cdot \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{3}} $$

This may have been computed algorithmically, according to the page. So I ask how one might derive this?


My immediate thought was to look at $(\mathbb{Z}/24\mathbb{Z})^\times = \big( \{ 1,5,7,11 \big| 13, 17, 19 , 23 \}, \times \big)$ where $1,5,7,11$ are relatively prime to 24. And the other half?

We could try to use the mirror formula $$ \Gamma(z) \Gamma(1-z) = \frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi z)} $$ or the Euler beta integral but nothing has come up yet: $$ \int_0^1 x^a (1-x)^b \, dx = \frac{\Gamma(a) \Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(a+b)} $$