Integrality and some evaluations of odd multiple harmonic sums

Publication date 4 April 2022

Abstract: In 2015, S. Hong and C. Wang proved that none of the elementary symmetric functions of

1, 1 / 3, l d o t s, 1 / (2 n - 1)

is an integer when

n g e q 2

. In 2017, Kh. Pilehrood, T. Pilehrood and R. Tauraso proved that the multiple harmonic sums

H_{n} (s_{1}, l d o t s, s_{r})

are never integers with exceptions of

H_{1} (s_{1}) = 1

and

H_{3} (1, 1) = 1

. They also proved that the multiple harmonic star sums are never integers when

n g e q 2

. In this paper, we consider the odd multiple harmonic sums and the odd multiple harmonic star sums and show that none of these sums is an integer with exception of the trivial case. Besides, we give evaluations of the odd (alternating) multiple harmonic sums with depth one.

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