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Explicit formulas for the solutions of the recurrence relations for 3--loop vacuum integrals are suggested. This formulas can be used for direct calculations and demonstrate a high efficiency. They also produce a new type of recurrence…
It is known that difference equations generated as the Newton-Raphson iteration for quadratic equations are solvable in closed form, and the solution can be constructed from linear three-term recurrence relations with constant coefficients.…
In this paper we show how to find a closed form solution for third order difference operators in terms of solutions of second order operators. This work is an extension of previous results on finding closed form solutions of recurrence…
Several expansions of the solutions to the confluent Heun equation in terms of incomplete Beta functions are constructed. A new type of expansion involving certain combinations of the incomplete Beta functions as expansion functions is…
An extension of two finite trigonometric series is studied to derive closed form formulae involving the Hurwitz-Lerch zeta function. The trigonometric series involves angles with a geometric series involving the powers of 3. These closed…
In 1971, by induction on $n$ and using a two-term linear recurrence relation, Graham and Pollak got a beautiful formula $$\det(D_n)=-(n-1)(-2)^{n-2}$$ on the determinant of distance matrix $D_n$ of a tree $T_n$ on $n$ vertices. The…
This article presents a reformulation of the Theory of Functional Connections: a general methodology for functional interpolation that can embed a set of user-specified linear constraints. The reformulation presented in this paper exploits…
Frobenius observed that the number of times an element of a finite group is obtained as a commutator is given by a specific combination of the irreducible characters of the group. More generally, for any word w the number of times an…
The main difference between certain spectral problems for linear Schr\"odinger operators, e.g. the almost Mathieu equation, and three-term recurrence relations for orthogonal polynomials is that in the former the index ranges across $\ZZ$…
For an arbitrary homogeneous linear recurrence sequence of order d with constant coefficients, we derive recurrence relations for all subsequences with indices in arithmetic progression. The coefficients of these recurrences are given…
This paper presents the equality of finite index sums of Bessel func- tions containing arbitrary numbers of terms. These reduce to the familiar three term recursion formulas in simple cases.
Consider an arbitrary complex-valued, twice continuously differentiable, nonvanishing function $\phi$ defined on a finite segment $[a,b]\subset \mathbb{R}$. Let us introduce an infinite system of functions constructed in the following way.…
In this work, we illustrate and explore the use of Taylor series as solutions of differential equations. For a large a number of classes of differential equations in the literature, there are plenty of sources where the well known Taylor…
Given a linear recurrence of the form $c_n=a_1c_{n-1}+\cdots+a_j c_{n-j}$, it is well-known that $c_n=\sum_{r}p_r(n)r^n$, where the sum is taken over the set of characteristic roots and each $p_r(n)$ is some polynomial. We give a closed…
We obtain exact, simple and very compact expressions for the linearization coefficients of the products of orthogonal polynomials; both the conventional Clebsch-Gordan-type and the modified version. The expressions are general depending…
An analysis of the generalized confluent Heun equation $(\alpha_2r^2+\alpha_1r)\,y''+(\beta_2r^2+\beta_1r+\beta_0)\,y'-(\varepsilon_1r+\varepsilon_0)\,y=0$ in $d$-dimensional space, where $\{\alpha_i, \beta_i, \varepsilon_i\}$ are real…
This paper examines some solutions for confluent and double-confluent Heun equations. In the first place, we review two Leaver's solutions in series of regular and irregular confluent hypergeometric functions for the confluent equation and…
A simple recurrence relation for the even order moments of the Fabius function is proven. Also, a very similar formula for the odd order moments in terms of the even order moments is proved. The matrices corresponding to these formulas (and…
Inspired by a result of Manin, we study the relationship between certain period integrals and the trace of Frobenius of genus 3 generalized Legendre curves. We show that both of these properties can be computed in terms of "matching"…
We construct fast algorithms for evaluating transforms associated with families of functions which satisfy recurrence relations. These include algorithms both for computing the coefficients in linear combinations of the functions, given the…