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Evaluations of Euler type sums of weight $\leq$ 5

Number Theory 2017-04-21 v2

Abstract

Let p,p1,,pmp,p_1,\ldots,p_m be positive integers with p1p2pmp_1\leq p_2\leq\cdots\leq p_m and x[1,1)x\in [-1,1), define the so-called Euler type sums Sp1p2pm,p(x){S_{{p_1}{p_2} \cdots {p_m},p}}\left( x \right), which are the infinite sums whose general term is a product of harmonic numbers of index nn, a power of n1n^{-1} and variable xnx^n, by Sp1p2pm,p(x):=n=1Hn(p1)Hn(p2)Hn(pm)npxn(mN:={1,2,3,}),S_{p_1 p_2 \cdots p_m, p}(x) := \sum_{n = 1}^\infty \frac{H_n^{(p_1)} H_n^{(p_2)} \cdots H_n^{(p_m)}} {n^p} x^n \quad (m\in \mathbb{N} := \{1,2,3,\ldots\}), where Hn(p)H_n^{(p)} is defined by the generalized harmonic number. Extending earlier work about classical Euler sums, we prove that whenever p+p1++pm5p+p_1+\cdots+p_m \leq 5, then all sums Sp1p2pm,p(1/2){S_{{p_1}{p_2} \cdots {p_m},p}}\left( 1/2\right) can be expressed as a rational linear combination of products of zeta values, polylogarithms and log(2)\log(2). The proof involves finding and solving linear equations which relate the different types of sums to each other.

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@article{arxiv.1704.03515,
  title  = {Evaluations of Euler type sums of weight $\leq$ 5},
  author = {Ce Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.03515},
  year   = {2017}
}