Friday, 10 April 2015

taylor expansion - Nested radical sqrtx+sqrtx2+cdotssqrtxn+cdots

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)=2525f(3)(1)=65150625f(4)(1)=14645+53763125




These gave me Taylor expansion around x0=1



T4(x)=5+12+5+15(x1)525(x1)2+651503750(x1)3     +615+2243125(x1)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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