Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 48831

For questions that explicitly reference the binomial coefficients, Pascal's Triangle, and Binomial identities.

2 votes

Asking for a proof for a sum of products of binomials: an "interesting" identity?

A generating function proof. As $\arcsin(z)=\sum_{k\geq 0} \frac{1}{2k+1} {2k \choose k} \frac{z^{2k+1}}{4^k}$ and $\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-z^2}}=\sum_{k\geq 0}{2k \choose k}\frac{z^{2k}}{4^k}$ we have that …
esg's user avatar
  • 3,255
4 votes

Showing this formula counts these things

Here is a proof using (formal) generating functions. The Lah number $L(n,m+1)$ $$L(n,m+1)=\frac{n!}{(m+1)!}[x^n] \bigg(\frac{x}{1-x}\bigg)^{m+1}$$ counts the number of unordered partitions of the se …
esg's user avatar
  • 3,255
4 votes

$\prod_k(x\pm k)$ in binomial basis?

Here is an argument for the leading coefficient (and more). We use (formal) generating functions. Let $f_{n,x}(t):= \sum_{m=0}^n {n-x \choose m } {n+x \choose n-m} e^{(x+2m-n)t}$, we are interested i …
esg's user avatar
  • 3,255
6 votes

A combinatorial identity

Here is a generating-function proof of your conjectured identity (and an answer to question 2). The main ingredient is a formula for the appearing symmetric sums. Let $T(z)$ (the ``tree function'') …
esg's user avatar
  • 3,255