Consider for large integers $n$ the expression $\sin \left(\pi \sqrt{4 n^2+n}\right)$.
Since
$\sqrt{4 n^2+n}=2 n \sqrt{1 + \frac{1}{4 n}}$
we can use the standard series for the square root and next the standard series for $sin$ to find a series expansion of this expression around $\infty$. That is a simple first year exercise.
I was unable to do this computation in an elegant way with Mathematica. I expected the following to work:
Series[Sin[Sqrt[n+4 n^2] π], {n,∞,3}, Assumptions->{n ∈ Integers}]
$\sin \left(2 \pi n+\frac{\pi }{4}-\frac{\pi }{64 n}+\frac{\pi }{512 n^2}-\frac{5 \pi }{16384 n^3}+O\left(\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)^4\right)\right)$
To my surprise, the expansion is only inside Sin
and the fact that n
is an integer is not used.
I tried to use Normal
and TrigExpand
without success. Finally I found a rather dirty trick to obtain the result I was looking for:
Series[Sin[Sqrt[n + 4 n^2] π], {n, ∞, 3}] /. Sin[x_] :> Sin[x - 2 π n]
$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}-\frac{\pi }{64 \sqrt{2} n}+\frac{\frac{\pi }{512 \sqrt{2}}-\frac{\pi ^2}{8192 \sqrt{2}}}{n^2}+\frac{-\frac{5 \pi }{16384 \sqrt{2}}+\frac{\pi ^2}{32768 \sqrt{2}}+\frac{\pi ^3}{1572864 \sqrt{2}}}{n^3}+O\left(\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)^4\right)$
Can this result be found in a more straightforward way?
Edit
Let us reconsider
Series[Sin[Sqrt[n + 4 n^2] π], {n, ∞, 3}, Assumptions -> {n ∈ Integers}]
$\sin \left(2 \pi n+\frac{\pi }{4}-\frac{\pi }{64 n}+\frac{\pi }{512 n^2}-\frac{5 \pi }{16384 n^3}+O\left(\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)^4\right)\right)$
Henric Schumacher is quite right in his assumption that we do not find a series expansion, but only a series expansion wrapped in Sin
, because Sin
has an essential singularity at Infinity
. The documentation of Series
, under Possible Issues
, shows something similar. So this should not have surprised me.
The assumption that n
is an integer has not prevented the appearance of the term 2πn
in the argument of Sin
. Without that term, the result would immediately further evaluate to the result we are looking for. So we have to get rid of this term.
The argument of Sin
is a SeriesData
expression, which is atomic. Therefore, the substitution 2πn->0
does not work. But assignment is possible:
sd=Series[Sin[Sqrt[n+4 n^2] π],{n,∞,3}];
sd[[1,3,1]]=0;
sd
$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}-\frac{\pi }{64 \sqrt{2} n}+\frac{\frac{\pi }{512 \sqrt{2}}-\frac{\pi ^2}{8192 \sqrt{2}}}{n^2}+\frac{-\frac{5 \pi }{16384 \sqrt{2}}+\frac{\pi ^2}{32768 \sqrt{2}}+\frac{\pi ^3}{1572864 \sqrt{2}}}{n^3}+O\left(\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)^4\right)$
Another way of getting rid of the term 2πn
is to use Normal
and FullSimplify
with the assumption that n
is an integer, as done in the answer of Mikado. After that, we need another call of Series
to arrive at the desired result.
To summarize: at the moment, it seems that there is no straightforward way for finding this series expansion by Mathematica, while it is easily found with pen and paper.
Sin
atInfinity
? Exactly asExp
,Sin
has an essential singularity atInfinity
. Things likeSeriesCoefficient[Sin[x], {x, Infinity, -5}]
work fine. $\endgroup$Series
twice, withNormal
andRefine
in the middle to handle then
integrality.In[2]:= Series[ Refine[Normal[ Series[Sin[Sqrt[n + 4 n^2] \[Pi]], {n, \[Infinity], 3}]], Assumptions -> {n \[Element] Integers}], {n, \[Infinity], 3}] Out[2]= SeriesData[n, DirectedInfinity[1], { 2^Rational[-1, 2], Rational[-1, 64] 2^Rational[-1, 2] Pi, Rational[1, 512] 2^Rational[-1, 2] Pi + Rational[-1, 8192] 2^Rational[-1, 2] Pi^2, Rational[1, 3145728] ((-480) 2^Rational[1, 2] Pi + 48 2^Rational[1, 2] Pi^2 + 2^Rational[ 1, 2] Pi^3)}, 0, 4, 1]
$\endgroup$