# An infinite set of identities using Stirling numbers 1st kind - are they all zero?

I have the following set of series involving the Stirling numbers 1'st kind and binomials, which can be understood as a set of dot-products of row- and column-vectors of two infinite matrices (where R and C indicate rows and columns, beginning at zero):

$$w_{R,C} =\sum_{k=\max(R,C)}^\infty (-1)^k {s_1(1+k,1+k-R)\over k!} \cdot (-1)^C (1+C)^k \cdot \binom {1+k}{1+C}$$

I've tested this heuristically for several R and C and always approximated zero; also wolfram-alpha can evaluate this explicitely to zero if feeded with

sum (-1)^k * StirlingS1(k+1,1+k-R)/k! * (1+C)^k * binomial(1+k,1+C), for k=max(C,R) to infty

where we replace $C$, $R$ and $\max(C,R)$ with actual values.

However, I've no option to let wolfram-alpha answer this in general.

I've proved this for $C=0$ and the first few R using exponential generating functions, but again, a general proof is out of reach for me (possibly I'm overlooking something trivial like telescoping...), so I ask for help here.

The convention for Stirling numbers first kind as in Math'ica, indexes beginning at zero:

$\small \qquad \qquad \begin{array} {rrrrr} 1 & . & . & . & . & . \\\ 0 & 1 & . & . & . & . \\\ 0 & -1 & 1 & . & . & . \\\ 0 & 2 & -3 & 1 & . & . \\\ 0 & -6 & 11 & -6 & 1 & . \\\ 0 & 24 & -50 & 35 & -10 & 1 \end{array}$

If some background is of interest: here are the questions on MSE
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/16228 // question of some user which motivated me to look at an example
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/89853 // my follow-up question dealing with the current problem
and a more worked out treatize on this in a pdf-file http://go.helms-net.de/math/divers/InverseNullmatrix.pdf

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