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Generalized Harmonic Number Sums and Quasi-Symmetric Functions

Number Theory 2022-02-09 v1

Abstract

We express some general type of infinite series such as n=1F(Hn(m)(z),Hn(2m)(z),,Hn(m)(z))(n+z)s1(n+1+z)s2(n+k1+z)sk, \sum^\infty_{n=1}\frac{F(H_n^{(m)}(z),H_n^{(2m)}(z),\ldots,H_n^{(\ell m)}(z))} {(n+z)^{s_1}(n+1+z)^{s_2}\cdots (n+k-1+z)^{s_k}}, where F(x1,,x)Q[x1,,x]F(x_1,\ldots,x_\ell)\in\mathbb Q[x_1,\ldots,x_\ell], Hn(m)(z)=j=1n1/(j+z)mH_n^{(m)}(z)=\sum^n_{j=1}1/(j+z)^m, z(1,0]z\in (-1,0], and s1,,sks_1,\ldots,s_k are nonnegative integers with s1++sk2s_1+\cdots+s_k\geq 2, as a linear combination of multiple Hurwitz zeta functions and some speical values of Hn(m)(z)H_n^{(m)}(z).

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@article{arxiv.1812.06685,
  title  = {Generalized Harmonic Number Sums and Quasi-Symmetric Functions},
  author = {Kwang-Wu Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.06685},
  year   = {2022}
}

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