Transcendental Numbers and the Lambert-Tsallis Function

Abstract: To decide upon the arithmetic nature of some numbers may be a non-trivial problem. Some cases are well know, for example exp(1) and W(1), where W is the Lambert function, are transcendental numbers. The Tsallis q-exponential, e_q (z), and the Lambert-Tsallis W_q (z) function, where q is a real parameter, are, respectively, generalizations of the exponential and Lambert functions. In the present work we use the Gelfond-Schneider theorem in order to show the arithmetic conditions on q and z such that W_q (z) and exp_q (z) are transcendental.