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Paperfolding, Automata, and Rational Functions - Diagonals and ...

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As said, in characteristic zero, neither diagonals, nor Hadamard<br />

products, preserve algebraicity. For the latter, the st<strong>and</strong>ard example is<br />

(1 − 4X) −1/2 = X “<br />

2h<br />

”<br />

X<br />

h<br />

h ; but X “<br />

2h<br />

h<br />

is not algebraic. The first remark is just the useful identity<br />

“<br />

2h<br />

”<br />

h<br />

= (−4) h“ −1/2<br />

”<br />

h<br />

”2<br />

X h<br />

Facts such as this are of interest to logicians.Then, introductory<br />

calculus shows the latter series is given by the integral<br />

Z π/2 2<br />

π 0<br />

dt<br />

q<br />

(1 − 16X sin 2 t)<br />

This is a complete elliptic integral well known not to represent an<br />

algebraic function.<br />

.<br />

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