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Does summing divergent series using cutoff functions give consistent results?

One way to try to give a value $S$ to a divergent series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n$ is with a smooth cutoff function: $$ S = \lim_{N\to\infty}\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n \eta\left(\frac{n}{N}\right) $$ where $\...
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Request for the proof of a result from Ramanujan's letter to Hardy.

Srinivasa Ramanujan in his first letter to G.H. Hardy stated many results for which he didn't give proofs. Among them the result taken from this link seems interesting : If $$\int\limits_{0}^{\infty} ...
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Uniform variant of Stirling's approximation

Stirling's formula is usually stated in the form $\log \Gamma(s) = (s-\frac12) \log{s} - s + \log\sqrt{2\pi} + E(s)$, where $E(s) = c_1/s + c_2/s^2 + \dots + O(s^{-K})$ for certain absolute ...
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