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Wallis-Ramanujan-Schur-Feynman

2010 
One of the earliest examples of analytic representations for $\pi$ is given by an infinite product provided by Wallis in 1655. The modern literature often presents this evaluation based on the integral formula $$ \frac{2}{\pi} \int_0^\infty \frac{dx}{(x^2+1)^{n+1}} = \frac{1}{2^{2n}} \binom{2n}{n}. $$ In trying to understand the behavior of this integral when the integrand is replaced by the inverse of a product of distinct quadratic factors, the authors encounter relations to some formulas of Ramanujan, expressions involving Schur functions, and Matsubara sums that have appeared in the context of Feynman diagrams.
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