A Short Proof of a Concrete Sum

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Authors Samuel G. Moreno, Esther M. García-Caballero

Publication date 19 April 2018

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03301, http://nntdm.net/papers/nntdm-23/NNTDM-23-3-035-037.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

floor functionFourier expansiontrigonometric identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Exponential and trigonometric functions (33B10) Trigonometric approximation (42A10)

Abstract: We give an alternative proof of a formula that generalizes Hermite's identity. Instead involving modular arithmetic, our short proof relies on the Fourier-type expansion for the floor function and on a trigonometric formula.

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