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New Approximation method for the computation of particular values of polylogarithms

General Mathematics 2018-09-11 v1

Abstract

An efficient procedure for the computation of Lis(z)Li_{s}(z) where s<0s<0 is here presented. We started with Polylogarithm Lis(z)Li_{s}(z) where s<0s<0. The summation of nsznn^{s}z^{n} is evaluated using a new method. An assumption is made that the power nn is multiplied by xx where x=1x=1; then the series is integrated ss time in order to cancel the term nsn^s out leaving the term znz^n. By simply taking the derivative of the result ss-times, an expression to evaluate the series arises which include only a constant term and the sth^{th} order of derivative of the summation of a simple geometric series. The computation of Lis(z)Li_{s}(z) can then be performed in O(n)\mathcal{O}(n) operations.

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@article{arxiv.1809.02856,
  title  = {New Approximation method for the computation of particular values of polylogarithms},
  author = {Abdalla M. Aboarab},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.02856},
  year   = {2018}
}
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