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Trivial (?) product/series expansions for sine and cosine
In an old paper of Glaisher, I find the following formulas:
$$\dfrac{\sin(\pi x)}{\pi x}=1-\dfrac{x^2}{1^2}-\dfrac{x^2(1^2-x^2)}{(1.2)^2}-\dfrac{x^2(1^2-x^2)(2^2-x^2)}{(1.2.3)^2}-\cdots$$
$$\cos(\pi x/...
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Optimal scaling of Lipschitz estimates in generalized geometric series
If we did not know it before, then wikipedia teaches us the generalized geometric series
$$\sum_{n \ge 0} \binom{n+k}{n} (1-\mu)^{n} \mu^k = \frac{1}{\mu}.$$
We can then study for $0 <\varepsilon &...
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An identity for rational functions leading to equations for multiple polylogarithms
The following identity is not hard to prove:
$$
\sum_{1\leq i_1<i_2<\ldots <i_{2n}\leq N} (-1)^{i_1+\ldots+i_{2n}}\frac{(1-x_{i_1})(1-x_{i_3})\ldots(1-x_{i_{2n-1}})}{(1-x_{i_2})(1-x_{i_4}) \...
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Reference for exponential Vandermonde determinant identity
I recently stumbled upon the following identity, valid for any real numbers $\alpha_1,\dots,\alpha_n$ and $\lambda_{n1} \leq \dots \leq \lambda_{nn}$:
$$ \mathrm{det}( e^{\alpha_i \lambda_{nj}} )_{1 \...
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Reflection formula for the Hurwitz zeta function and odd zeta values
A reflection formula for the Hurwitz zeta function, which does not seem to be well known, uses half of the polynomials generated by $\frac{1}{-1+\sqrt{t-1}\cot(\sqrt{t-1}u)}$. (Look at the sections "...
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Transfinite sums related to a sequence
Given a sequence $S$ indexed by the finite ordinals, a limit ordinal $\alpha$, and $k \in \mathbb{N}$, define $S_{\alpha+k}$(the extension of $S$ to $\alpha+k$) to be the sum over the products of all $...