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Generalized quasi-shuffle products

Number Theory 2023-03-23 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the notion of generalized quasi-shuffle products and give a criterion for their associativity. These extend the quasi-shuffle products introduced by Hoffman, which are often used to describe the stuffle and shuffle product for multiple zeta values. For qq-analogues of multiple zeta values, the description of an analogue for the shuffle product can often not be described with the classical notion of quasi-shuffle products. We show that our generalization gives a natural extension to also include these types of products and we prove a generalization of a duality between the qq-shuffle product and the qq-stuffle product.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2303.12386,
  title  = {Generalized quasi-shuffle products},
  author = {Masataka Satoh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12386},
  year   = {2023}
}
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