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Converging to Gosper's Algorithm

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2007-11-22 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Given two polynomials, we find a convergence property of the GCD of the rising factorial and the falling factorial. Based on this property, we present a unified approach to computing the universal denominators as given by Gosper's algorithm and Abramov's algorithm for finding rational solutions to linear difference equations with polynomial coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.0711.3386,
  title  = {Converging to Gosper's Algorithm},
  author = {William Y. C. Chen and Peter Paule and Husam L. Saad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3386},
  year   = {2007}
}

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13 pages

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