{ "id": "1210.2493", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-10-09T04:32:57.000Z", "updated": "2012-12-04T10:35:59.000Z", "title": "A generating function of the squares of Legendre polynomials", "authors": [ "Wadim Zudilin" ], "comment": "7 pages", "journal": "Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. 89:1 (2014) 125--131", "doi": "10.1017/S0004972713000233", "categories": [ "math.CA", "math-ph", "math.MP", "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We relate a one-parametric generating function for the squares of Legendre polynomials to an arithmetic hypergeometric series whose parametrisation by a level 7 modular function was recently given by Shaun Cooper. By using this modular parametrisation we resolve a subfamily of identities involving $1/\\pi$ which was experimentally observed by Zhi-Wei Sun.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2012-12-04T10:35:59.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "33C20", "11F03", "11F11", "11Y60", "33C45" ], "keywords": [ "legendre polynomials", "arithmetic hypergeometric series", "modular parametrisation", "one-parametric generating function", "shaun cooper" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 7, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1210.2493Z" } } }