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Equivalence of sequences related to A033264

Given the structure of these sequences, it seems convenient to describe them as integer valued functions of binary strings rather than of natural numbers. This way, the recursions from $b$ and $c$ app …
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Uniqueness of Neumann series

We can say a bit more: if a Neumann series converges point-wise, it also converges absolutely and in $\mathbb C[[z]]$, and the limit is an entire function. Let $(a_n)_{n\ge0}$ be a sequence of complex …
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Uniqueness of Neumann series

edit: This was meant to recall a first elementary but relevant fact that was not mentioned at all, that is orthogonality. Bessel functions $\{J_n\}_{n\in\mathbb N_+}$ are orthogonal on $\mathbb R$ w.r …
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Difference between finite partial sums from two divergent series

A necessary and sufficient condition for $\{s_i\}_{i\in\mathbb N}\subset(0,1)$ to satisfy your property $(*)$, as it is, is simply that $$|s_i-r_i|\le\frac{r_i}2\, \text{ for all } i\in\mathbb N.$$ …
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Lower bound in recurrence relation

From the definition $$v_{k-1}=\frac1{15}\prod_{j=1}^k(2^j+1)=$$$$= \frac1 {15}{2^{ {\frac12k(k+1)}}}\prod_{j=1}^k(1+2^{-j}),$$ and from the bound of the infinite product $$\frac1 {15}\prod_{j=1}^\inft …
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Is there another representation for the summation: $\sum_{j=1}^{N}\frac{a_j}{(c+a_j)(c+a_j+1...

A few words on existence and approximation. Write your equation as $$ \sum_{n=1}^N \frac{c^2a_n}{(c+b_n)(c+b_n+1)}=1.$$ There is a nice partial fractions decomposition, $$\frac{c^2 }{(c+b )(c+b +1)}=1 …
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Finding $\sum_i x_i$ given $\{\sum_i x_i^{2n}\}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$

[edit: completed] Assuming $x_i\ge0$ with $ \sum_i x_i <\infty$, we have that $\phi(t):=\sum_i(e^{x_it}-1)=\sum_{k\ge1} \big(\sum_i x_i^k\big)t^k/k!$ is an entire function (we can expand the expo …
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Binomial series

As remarked by Iosif Pinelis, this is a matter of law of great numbers; we may also describe it in terms of Bernstein polynomials. Specifically, for $\alpha\ge0$ and $n\ge1$, let $p_n$ be the value of …
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Another chicken or egg: sequence or series

Why shouldn’t they come together? Here’s a possible program. The first object to appear, in an elementary course of analysis, if one starts by an axiomatic presentation of $\mathbb R$, is the supremum …
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On the finite sum of reciprocal Fibonacci sequences

We need to prove, equivalently $$\frac1{F_{2n-1}+1}<\sum_{k=n}^{2n}\frac1{F_{2k}}\le \frac1{F_{2n-1}}, $$ that is, by the above expression for $F_{k}$, since $\beta=-\alpha^{-1}$, we need to check the …
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A need for analytic continuation of a finite sum function

As for the sum $$\sum_{k\geq1}(-1)^k\binom{k}{\frac23}^{-1}$$ one can evaluate it by means of the Beta function integral, like in this recent computation. $$\sum_{k\geq1}(-1)^k\binom{k}{\frac23}^{-1}= …
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Closed form of an infinite series

Denote $c_n:={(-1)^n \frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{3}+\frac{n}{3})}{\Gamma(1+\frac{n}{3})} \sin(\frac{2\pi n}{3})}$ the $n$-th term of the series. We have for all $k\ge0$ $$c_{3k}=0,$$ $$c_{3k+1}= (-1)^{k+1}\ …
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A differential equation governing compositional inversion

I do not have a reference, but I’d say it is a plain instance of the Implicit Function Theorem for formal power series. I add the computation below, in case you had a different one. We choose our inde …
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Modulo $2$ binomial transform of $m^n$

If $n\in \mathbb N$ has binary expansion $n=\sum_{k\in S}2^k$ for a finite subset $S\subset \mathbb N$, then $$ \sum_{j=0}^n\Big[\big( {n \atop j}\big)\text{mod}\, 2 \Big]x^jy^{n-j}=\prod_{k\in S} (x^ …
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A restricted version of Riemann series theorem: rearrangements with alternating signs

Here you prescribe in addition the sequence of signs of the rearranged series in the Riemann-Dini theorem to be alternating, but note that any non-stationary binary sequence of signs does as well. Mo …
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