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Value of $\pi$ and algorithm for Bernoulli numbers

Chowla and Hartung provide an "algorithm" for computing Bernoulli numbers in this paper. In particular, if the Bernoulli numbers are defined by $$\frac{x}{e^x-1}=1-\frac{x}{2}+\sum_{n=1}^\...
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limsup of sequence

Let $\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}[|t|]$ be the ring of power series with non-negative integer coefficients and consider the power series $$P(t) = \sum_{i=0}^ \infty a_i t^i \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}[|t|]$$ $$P^2(...
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Limit of alternating sum of factorial moments which diverge

Consider the non-negative, integer valued random variable $X$, and its $i^{\text{th}}$ factorial moment $E_{i}[X]$. Then we have that $$ P(X=0) = \sum _{i=0}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^i E_{r}[X]}{ i!} $$ ...
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Geometric series involving the Laguerre polynomials

Let put $\alpha=5$ and $x=3$. Consider the following set given by $$M=\lbrace \; n \in N, \; \; 0 < |L_{n}^{5}(3)| < 1 \; \rbrace$$ Where $L_{n}^{\alpha}(x)$ is the generalized Laguerre ...
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Question regarding convergent series of positive real numbers [closed]

If we have two convergent series of positive reals, $∑b_n$ and $∑c_n$, can we find a third convergent series of positive reals, $∑a_n$ , such that $\frac{a_n}{b_n }$ $\rightarrow$ $\infty$ and $\frac{...
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An inequality for a recursively defined sequence of numbers

Consider an arbitrary sequence $(x_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ and $r \in \mathbb{R}$ with $r > 2$. Set $y_0 = 1$ and $z_0 = 0$ and for $n \in \mathbb{N}$ recursively define $$y_n = ...
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Convergence mode with inputs and functions varying in tandem

Given a sequence $(f_n)$ of functions between metric spaces, let's say that $f_n$ "converges flexibly" to $f$ if, whenever $x_n \to x$ is a convergent sequence of inputs, it follows that $...
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Second question on a real sequence

I am thinking again about the real sequence $\{a_n\}_{n\ge1}$ which decays faster than any algebraic speed, that is, $\lim_{n\to \infty}n^pa_n = 0$ for every integer $p$. Actually, $a_n$ can be ...
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Convergence of a certain serie

I came cross the following serie : $$\sum\limits_{\mathbf k \in \mathbb N^d} e^{\langle \mathbf r, \mathbf k \rangle}$$ What would be the conditions on the d-dimensional real vector $\mathbf r$ for ...
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Some fun with special infinite nested radicals

Let us define the following functions: $$f_n(x)=\sqrt{x^{n}-\sqrt{x^{n+1}- \sqrt{x^{n+2}-\cdots}}} $$ $$g_n(x)=\sqrt{x^{n}+\sqrt{x^{n+1}+ \sqrt{x^{n+2}+\cdots}}} $$ with $f(x)=f_1(x)$ and $g(x)=g_1(x)$...
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Do functions $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ with these properties exist?

Basically, I am trying to determine how exactly and in which ways everywhere discontinuous bijections $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ "behave when they are unusual". More precisely, I am trying to ...
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Recurrence involving families of orthogonal polynomials

Let $ \forall n \in N, n\geq 1$ $$ R_n(x)=(-1)^n n! \displaystyle \frac{(x-1)...(x-n)}{(x(x+1)..(x+n))^2}$$ thus by decomposition in simple element it's easy to see that $$ (1): \quad R_n(x)= \...
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Convergence acceleration of a series by using optimal parameters

One of the ways of accelerating the convergence of a series is by transforming into a faster series using optimal parameters. Examples of this approach can be found in this paper. I obtained a ...
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Determining a Closed Formula for the Positive Zeroes of the $n^{th}$ Derivatives of the Function $x↦x^{-x}$

The derivatives of the function $ f(x)=x^{-x}$ have interesting properties, especially when looking at their roots. I am interested in studying the behavior of the roots of the derivatives as the ...
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Proving the existence of a sequence with recursive growth constraints

Fix $0 < c < 1/3$. Show that there exists a strictly increasing sequence $a_k > 0$, a sequence $b_k \geq 0$, and an infinite set $K \subseteq \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ such that \begin{align}\...
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simultaneous smallness

QUESTION. Given reals $0 < \epsilon, \delta < 1$, is it always possible to find $m, n \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $$\begin{cases} \qquad \,\,\,\, \,(1-\delta^m)^n < \epsilon \\ 1-(1-(\frac{\...
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Positivity of alternating series

Let $\{a_n\}_{n=0}^{\infty}$ be a sequence of positive real numbers such that $\limsup_n \frac{1}{n}\log a_n=-\infty$. Then $$ f(x)=\sum_{n\geq 0}a_n x^n $$ converges absolutely for all $x$. Under ...
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How to compute this series: $\sum_{k=0}^\infty \frac{C_k}{2^{2k+1}}$ [closed]

How to compute this series: $$\sum_{k=0}^\infty \frac{C_k}{2^{2k+1}}$$ where $C_k$ is the catalan number: $C_k=\frac{1}{k+1}{2k \choose k}$. (Further, is there any general method to treat this ...
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Summation of binomial coefficients with alternating signs

For a fixed $\alpha > 1$ and integer $n$, I want to provide some bounds or scaling results for the following summations $$S_1(n,\alpha) = \sum_{k = 1}^{n} {n \choose k} (-1)^{k + 1} k / (\alpha k + ...
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Does the neighborhood of a sequence of uniform density have uniform measure?

Suppose $t_{n}$ is a sequence of positive real numbers such that $c_{1}\geq \lim \sup_{n\to \infty}t_{n}/n\geq \lim \inf_{n\to \infty}t_{n}/n\geq c_{2}>0$ where $c_{1}\geq c_{2}>0$ are positive ...
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An increasing sequence of real numbers [closed]

This was first posted to SE, but now I think its better to be posted here. For what positive real numbers $\alpha$, the sequence $a_n = \frac{\lfloor n\alpha\rfloor}n $ is (not necessary strictly) ...
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Lower bounding an alternating series with signs from a martingale difference sequence

Let $\epsilon_n \in \{-1, 1\}$ be a martingale difference sequence, in the sense that $$M_n := \sum_{i = 0}^n \epsilon_i$$ is a martingale. We assume $\epsilon_0 = \pm 1$ with probability $\frac{1}{2}$...
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Does rapid convergence of the Cesaro sums imply convergence of the original sequence?

Question: Let $a_n$ be a sequence of real numbers. Is it true that for every $\varepsilon > 0$, if $$\left \lvert \frac{1}{N} \left ( \sum_{n=0}^{N-1} a_n \right )\right \rvert < \frac{1}{N^{1+\...
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Infinite products for linear combinations of sines or cosines

There is a well known infinite product both for $\phi(x)=\sin x$ and $\phi(x)=\cos x$. These are particular cases of the Weierstrass factorization theorem. What about $\phi(x)=a_1\cos b_1 x + a_2\cos ...
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Characterizing the integral as a function of $n$

Let $\alpha \in [0,3], \beta \geq 1, \lambda \geq 1$ and fix $n \in \mathbb{N}$. Consider the function $f(x;\alpha, \beta, \lambda) = x^{\alpha}\exp(-\lambda x^\beta)$. Let $I(n; \alpha,\beta,\lambda) ...
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The sequence has a stationary accumulation point

Let $f:\mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a smooth (continuously differentiable), convex function with a non-empty set of minimizers and $\{x^k\}$ be a sequence such that (a) $\{x^k\}$ has an ...
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Nature of $ \sum_{n \geq 1} \frac{ \cos(n) \sin(n+1) }{n} $ [closed]

I'm trying to determine the nature of this series $ \sum_{n \geq 1} \frac{ \cos(n) \sin(n+1) }{n} $, but I'm not getting anywhere. I've tried using the Abel and trigonometric formulas, but I can't ...
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Series involving sine and cosine

Let $(a_n)_n$ be an increasing real sequence with $a_n=O(\sqrt n)$. Is it true that there exists an increasing function $\phi:\mathbb N\to\mathbb N$ such that $$\lim \left|\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\phi(n)}\...
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Proof of yet another extension of deterministic variant of "(Almost) Supermartingale" convergence theorem

In this question, there is a proof for deterministic version of "Almost Supermartingale" Question: Can we extend [1] as following? If yes, can we prove it? Let the non-negative sequences be ...
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Tight upper bound on $\sum_{1\leq k\leq m} \sqrt{(n/k)+b}$

I apologise if this is obvious or off-topic. Let $n$ be large and fixed, $b>0,$ and $m \in [\log n,n),$ say. This sum seems to be hard to evaluate/upper bound analytically (in closed form). ...
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On partial sum estimate on the series $S(p,q;s)=\sum_1^q\frac{\sin^2(\frac{p\Gamma(n)}{n})}{n^s}$ and other Generalizations

Consider the following sum : $$S(p,q;s)=\sum_{n=1}^q\frac{\sin^2(\frac{p\Gamma(n)}{n})}{n^s}$$ Here , $p$ is a variable w.r.t which we are going to analyse the sum. $s$ is another parameter with ...
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Lower bound for $\frac{x_{kn}}{x_n}$, where $(x_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ is a non-increasing sequence in [0,1] with $x_n\ge\frac{1}{n}$

Let $(x_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ be a non-increasing sequence in [0,1], (i.e. $x_n\ge x_{n+1},n\in\mathbb{N} $), such that $x_n\ge\frac{1}{n},n\in\mathbb{N} $. If we fix $k\in\mathbb{N}$ is there ...
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If $P_n \rightrightarrows P$ in $\mathbb{R}$ and $P_n$ are polynomials proof that $P$ is polynomial [closed]

I know that if $P_n$ are continuous functions and $P_n \rightrightarrows P$, $P$ is also continuous function. But I can't see in which direction I should dig to prove that $P$ is polynomial. I will ...
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Bounding the ratio of the $\ell_1$-norms of two real-valued $n$-vectors as a linear combination of their $n$ element-wise ratios

Let $a_1, a_2, \ldots a_n$ and $b_1, b_2, \ldots b_n$ be two sequences of $n\gg 1$ real numbers such that, for all $1\le i\le n$, we have $0<a_i \le b_i\le 1$. Let the ratio $R$ defined as follows: ...
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Analyze a complicated double summation

Let $f(x)$ be a real-valued twice continuously differentiable function, and considered the below double sum $$F(t,f(x)):=\dfrac{1}{t}\Big(\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\sum_{m=0}^{\infty}f(x+(k-m)/\sqrt{n})\...
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On double series involving Gregory coefficients and quotients of particular values of the gamma function

Edited, there was a mistake. I've edited because there was a mistake, advertised from the answerer, I hope that now all is right. Yesterday I got (but I haven't tested it numerically) that $$\frac{\...
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Inner Product of Given Sum Positive Sequence

Let $$A = \Big\{(a_1,a_2,\dots)\ \Big|\ a_i\ge 0, \sum_{i=1}^\infty a_i=1\Big\},$$ $$v(x)=\sup\left(\bigg\{\sum_{i=1}^\infty a_ib_i\ \bigg|\ (a_i)_{i=1}^\infty,\, (b_i)_{i=1}^\infty \in A,\,\sup\...
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Asymptotic of ratio between l1 / l2 norm of a structured vector

As suggested in this discussion, I would like to inquire about the following question: Consider a matrix B of size $n\times n$ defined as: $$B_{ij}(\pmb{\theta})=(\theta_i-\theta_j)\sin(\theta_i-\...
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asymptotic of ratio between two summations (l1 / l2 norm)

Let $B$ as a $n\times n$ matrix where $$B_{ij}(\pmb{\theta})=(\theta_i-\theta_j)\sin(\theta_i-\theta_j), 1\leq i<j\leq n$$ and other entries equals to $0$, and $$\theta=[\theta_1,\cdots,\theta_n]\...
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Sum power series not continuous unit circle

This is (probably) not a research question and I already asked it on StackExchange but I got no answer over there. Let us consider the sequence $(a_n)_{\geq 1} = \left(\frac{\cos(2\sqrt{2n}+\frac{\pi}{...
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Parseval identity extension?

I have stumbled upon the following three-dimensional series: $$\Lambda_p = \sum_{\underline{n}} \left(\frac{\left|n_1\right|}{\left|\left|\underline{n}\right|\right|_2}\right)^p \left|\hat{f}(\...
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Does the following sequence $\{g_n\}$ converge?

Consider a function sequence $\{f_n(t)\}$ ($n\in\mathbb{N}^+$) defined on the interval $(\frac{1}{2},1)$, where \begin{eqnarray}\label{eqn:constraint1} f_n(t)=\frac{\exp\left(n\left(\log R(h_t) - th_t\...
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Vanishing sequence and subsequence with particular decay [closed]

Assume I have a sequence $\{a_m\}$ that is vanishing and strictly positive: $$ 0<a_{m+1}\leq a_m\leq\ldots\leq a_1<\infty, \quad \lim_{m\to \infty}a_m = 0 $$ Is it true or false that this has a ...
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Let $f$ be periodic with a continuous image and $a_n = cn$ for some $c > 0$. When is $\{f(a_n)\}$ dense in the image of $f$?

Let $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ be a periodic function with period $T$ and continuous everywhere except perhaps on a countable set, and have an image that's an uncountable subset of $\mathbb{R}$. Let $...
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Express $\zeta(n)$, in particular the Apéry's constant, in terms of series involving Gregory coefficients or the Schröder's integral

The idea and motivation of this post is to know if it is possible to express integer arguments of the Riemann zeta function $\zeta(n)$, in particular $\zeta(3)$, in terms of series involving the so-...
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What is the class of real sequences satisfying these conditions?

I'm interested in finding the class of the real sequences $u_{k}$, $k\in \mathbb{N^*}$ which satify the following conditions: $\displaystyle \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{u_{k}}$ diverges i.e $\...
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Proof that Newton expansion over derivatives has the properties of an integral [duplicate]

Let's consider a Newton expansion over consecutive derivatives of a function: $$F(x)=\sum_{m=0}^{\infty} \binom {-1}m \sum_{k=0}^m\binom mk(-1)^{m-k}f^{(k)}(x)$$ Can it be proven that such ...
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Divergent summation [closed]

Let $(x_i)_{i=0}^\infty$ be a sequence such that $0<x_i<1\ \forall i \in \mathbb{N} \cup {0}$.Consider the following series: $$\sum_{i=1}^\infty \frac{x_i}{\left(\sum_{k=0}^{i-1} x_k \right)^2}.$...
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Is this recurrent sequence decreasing?

Let $S_n$ be defined as $\frac{1}{n}\sum_{t=1}^{t=n} [px_t^2 - (p+q)x_t]$ where $x_t = 1-(1-p-q)^t$. We want to find the conditions on $p$ and $q$ such that $S_n$ is monotonically decreasing for all $...
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Sum of $\sum_{1\leq k\leq k'\leq n}\frac{k^{\alpha}}{k'^{\alpha}}$ [closed]

I want to calculute or estimate of order $O(n^{2-\varepsilon})$, where $\varepsilon>0$, of the following sum for $0<\alpha<1$ $$\sum_{1\leq k\leq k'\leq n}\frac{k^{\alpha}}{k'^{\alpha}}.$$
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