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On alternating sums of binomial coefficients and $q$-binomial coefficients

Number Theory 2016-06-07 v2

Abstract

In this paper we shall evaluate two alternating sums of binomial coefficients by a combinatorial argument. Moreover, by combining the same combinatorial idea with partition theoretic techniques, we provide qq-analogues involving the qq-binomial coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.1603.03881,
  title  = {On alternating sums of binomial coefficients and $q$-binomial coefficients},
  author = {Mohamed El Bachraoui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03881},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Accepted in EJC