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I'm looking for a closed form for the expression $$ \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{(2k)^5-(2k)^3} $$ I know that Ramanujan gave the following closed form for a similar expression $$ \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{(2k)^3-2k}= \ln(2)-\frac{1}{2} $$ I wonder if it is possible to find such a similarly simple and nice closed form for the above case.

Thanks.

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$$  \frac{1}{(2k)^5 - (2k)^3} + \frac{1}{(2k)^3} = \frac{1 + (2k)^2 - 1}{(2k)^5 - (2k)^3} = \frac{1}{(2k)^3 -2k}$$

So by Ramanujan's result:

$$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{(2k)^5 - (2k)^3} = \ln(2) - \frac{1}{2} - \frac{1}{8}\zeta(3)$$

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Not an answer, but if you want to look for different solutions in the future in the same vein as these you posed, this might be a general method.

For an alternate representation for $$:

$$\frac{1}{a-b}=\frac{1}{a}+\frac{b}{a^2}+\frac{a^2}{b^3}+\frac{b^3}{a^4}+\cdots\qquad(1)$$

Plugging in $a=(2k)^{5}$ and $b=(2k)^3$

$$\frac{1}{(2k)^3}+\frac{(2k)^3}{(2k)^{10}}+\frac{(2k)^6}{(2k)^{15}}+\cdots=\sum_{n\geqslant 1}\frac{1}{(2k)^{2n+1}}$$

And thus your sum can be evaluated as

$$\sum_{k\geqslant 1}\sum_{n\geqslant 1}\frac{1}{(2k)^{2n+1}}$$

I am not entirely convinced if this was helpful to you. I am sorry if it was not.

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