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Taylor coefficients and series involving harmonic numbers

Combinatorics 2026-02-11 v3

Abstract

During 2022--2023 Z.-W. Sun posed many conjectures on infinite series with summands involving generalized harmonic numbers. Motivated by this, we deduce 5858 series identities involving harmonic numbers, eight of which were previously conjectured by the second author. For example, we obtain that k=1(1)kk2(2kk)(3kk)(7k22k1Hk1(2)34k2)=π4720. \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^k}{k^2{2k \choose k}{3k \choose k}} \left( \frac{7 k-2}{2 k-1} H_{k-1}^{(2)}-\frac{3}{4 k^2} \right) = \frac{\pi^4}{720}. and k=11k2(2kk)2(30k11k(2k1)(H2k1(3)+2Hk1(3))+278k4)=4ζ(3)2, \sum_{k=1}^\infty \frac{1}{k^2 {2k \choose k}^2} \left( \frac{30k-11}{k(2k-1)} (H_{2k-1}^{(3)} + 2 H_{k-1}^{(3)}) + \frac{27}{8k^4} \right) = 4 \zeta(3)^2, where Hn(m)H_n^{(m)} denotes 0<jnjm\sum_{0<j \le n}j^{-m}.

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@article{arxiv.2310.03699,
  title  = {Taylor coefficients and series involving harmonic numbers},
  author = {Qing-Hu Hou and Zhi-Wei Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03699},
  year   = {2026}
}

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add some new series