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Can we just use the linear term of exponential sums to sum divergent series

Suppose you want to compute the sum $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_n $ You could consider the expression $f(x) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} e^{a_n x}$ and try to compute the coefficient of an $x^1$ term in the asymp …
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Does anyone remember what happened to the experimental search for polynomial identities for ...

So a while back I was on the internet and had encountered a website containing an experimental search for identities for $\pi$. My memory was that the page belonged to either Jonathan Sondow or Micha …
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Is anything known about the series $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} x^{\sqrt{n}} $?

It's well known that there are a shocking number of identities for the usual Jacobi theta function $$ \theta_3(x) = \sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} x^{n^2}. $$ So I wanted to turn my attention to slowly dec …
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10 votes
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How to determine the asymptotics of $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} e^{-\frac{2^n}{x}}$

I'm generally interested in being able to find an asymptotic expansion of $$ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \left[ e^{- \frac{f(n)}{x}} \right] $$ As $x \rightarrow \infty$ and $f(n)$ is a smooth monotonically i …
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Has anyone characterized the zeroes of the Bell numbers?

I was reading this post about the Bell Numbers where users Lucian and Vladimir Reshetnikov give us Dobiński's formula for the Bell numbers $$ B(x) = \frac{1}{e} \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{k^x}{k!}. $$ …
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Evaluating the series $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} n! x^n$ and inverse variable-fractional-derivatives

So I was interested in formally assigning values to the completely divergent series $G(x) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} n!x^n $. I guess the question COULD end here if you already have an idea of how to tackl …
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Is there a recurrence for the coefficients of the Laurent series expansion of $\frac{1}{1-e^...

So there's an elementary (but in my opinion quite interesting!) result which is that the Laurent series expansion of $$\frac{1}{1-e^x} = -\frac{1}{x} + \frac{1}{2} - \frac{1}{12}x - \frac{1}{720}x^3 \ …
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A limit arising from Mellin Inversion: How to compute a specific term of an asymptotic series?

So I am wondering if there exists a general procedure for the following problem: given a monotonically increasing function $f(n)$ which is nonegative on the interval $[0,\infty)$ and grows faster than …
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Generating a series representation for the inverse of the operator $f(f)$

I am considering the following problem: Suppose you are given a function $u: C \rightarrow C$, find a function $g$ such that $g(g) = u$ (Let's assume that such a function exists). And by "find", I …
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Simplifying closed form for Meta Operator

I was consider the set of linear operators: $$O_{a,k} = \frac{f(ax^k) - f(x)}{ax^k - x} $$' Particularly I am looking for the closed forms of the eigenfunctions of this operator, that is the functi …
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Any known relations to this doubly exponential constant?

Two years back I was working with lacunary series. In my explorations I had derived that the following series is periodic with period 1: $$ f(x)= \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \left[ e^{2^{x+n}} \right] + x - \ …
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