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Identity involving sum over permutations
In some work on QFT the following identity has come up:
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\sum_{\sigma \in S_n}\sum_{j=1}^n \left(\sum_{l=1}^j w_{\sigma_l}\right)\prod_{i=1,i\neq j}^{n}\frac{1}{\sum_{l=1}^j z_{\sigma_l}-\sum_{l=1}^...
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Has the $E_8$-based generating function for squares numbers been proven?
In his 2004 paper Conformal Field Theory and Torsion Elements of the Bloch Group, Nahm explains a physical argument due to Kadem, Klassen, McCoy, and Melzer for the following remarkable identity. Let $...