I am studying the f(x)=√x+√x2+⋯√xn+⋯ for x∈(0,∞) and I am trying to get closed form formula for this, or at least some useful series/expansion. Any ideas how to get there?
So far I've got only trivial values, which are
f(1)=√1+√1+⋯√1=√5+12
f(4)=3
Second one follows from
2n+1=√4n+(2n+1+1)=√4n+√4n+1+(2n+2+1)=√4n+√4n+1+⋯
I have managed to compute several derivatives in x0=1 by using chain rule recursively on fn(x)=√xn+fn+1(x), namely:
f(1)(1)=√5+15f(2)(1)=−2√525f(3)(1)=6√5−150625f(4)(1)=1464√5+53763125
These gave me Taylor expansion around x0=1
T4(x)=√5+12+√5+15(x−1)−√525(x−1)2+6√5−1503750(x−1)3 +61√5+2243125(x−1)4
However this approach seems to be useful only very closely to the x=1. I am looking for something more general in terms of any x, but with my limited arsenal I could not get much further than this. Any ideas?
This was inspiring but kind of stopped where I did
http://integralsandseries.prophpbb.com/topic168.html
Edit:
Thanks for the answers, i will need to go through them, looks like the main idea is to divide by √2x, so then I am getting
\frac{\sqrt{x+\sqrt{x^2+\cdots\sqrt{x^n+\cdots}}}}{\sqrt{2x}} = \sqrt{\frac{1}{2}+\sqrt{\frac{1}{4}+\sqrt{\frac{1}{16x}+\sqrt{\frac{1}{256x^4}+...}}}}
Then to make expansion from this. This is where I am not yet following how to get from this to final expansion.
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