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Proof of an explicit formula for a series from Ramanujan's Notebooks via tree functions

Combinatorics 2023-07-04 v1

Abstract

We prove a recent conjecture, due to Vigren and Dieckmann, about an explicit triple sum formula for a series from Ramanujan's Notebooks. We shall give two proofs: the first one is by evaluation and based on the identity \begin{equation*} \sum_{k=0}^\infty \frac{(x+k)^{m+k}}{k!}e^{-u(x+k)} u^k = \sum_{j=0}^\infty \sum_{i=0}^{m}\binom{m+j}{i} \stirl{m+j-i}{j}x^iu^j, \end{equation*} where {nk}\genfrac\{\}{0pt}{}{n}{k} is a Stirling number of the second kind, and the second one is combinatorial in nature and by induction.

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@article{arxiv.2307.00566,
  title  = {Proof of an explicit formula for a series from Ramanujan's Notebooks via tree functions},
  author = {Ming-Jian Ding and Jiang Zeng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.00566},
  year   = {2023}
}

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