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Integrality and some evaluations of odd multiple harmonic sums

Number Theory 2022-04-05 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

In 2015, S. Hong and C. Wang proved that none of the elementary symmetric functions of 1,1/3,,1/(2n1)1,1/3,\ldots,1/(2n-1) is an integer when n2n\geq 2. In 2017, Kh. Pilehrood, T. Pilehrood and R. Tauraso proved that the multiple harmonic sums Hn(s1,,sr)H_n(s_1,\ldots,s_r) are never integers with exceptions of H1(s1)=1H_1(s_1)=1 and H3(1,1)=1H_3(1,1)=1. They also proved that the multiple harmonic star sums are never integers when n2n\geq 2. In this paper, we consider the odd multiple harmonic sums and the odd multiple harmonic star sums and show that none of these sums is an integer with exception of the trivial case. Besides, we give evaluations of the odd (alternating) multiple harmonic sums with depth one.

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@article{arxiv.2204.01347,
  title  = {Integrality and some evaluations of odd multiple harmonic sums},
  author = {Zhonghua Li and Zhenlu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.01347},
  year   = {2022}
}

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13 pages

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