Decomposition of products of Riemann zeta values (Q2253870)

We quote the authors' abstract: The classical Euler decomposition theorem expresses a product of two Riemann zeta values in terms of double Euler sums. Also, the sum formula expresses a single Riemann zeta value in terms of multiple zeta values of depth \(n\). In this paper, we express a product of \(n\) Riemann zeta values in terms of multiple zeta values of depth \(n\). We establish a new and general explicit formula \[ \zeta(d_1+2)\zeta(d_2+2)\cdots \zeta(d_n+2) =\sum_{|\pmb{\alpha}|=\left|{\mathbf d}\right|+2n-1}\zeta(\alpha_1,\alpha_2,\ldots,\alpha_{n}+1) \] \[ \times \sum_{\sigma \in S_n}\sigma_{{\mathbf d}}\left\{ {{h_n}\choose {d_{n}+1}}{{h_{n-1}}\choose {d_{n-1}+1}}\cdots {{h_2}\choose {d_{2}+1}}\right\}, \] \noindent where \(h_j=d_j+2+\sum_{\ell\geq j}(\alpha_{\ell}-d_{\ell}-2)\), \(S_n\) is the symmetric group of \(n\) objects, and \(\sigma_{\mathbf{d}}\) is the induced permutation of \(\sigma\).