A curious identity arising from Stirling's formula and saddle-point method on two different contours (Q6197307)

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A curious identity arising from Stirling's formula and saddle-point method on two different contours
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7806230

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    A curious identity arising from Stirling's formula and saddle-point method on two different contours (English)
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    16 February 2024
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    Summary: We prove the curious identity in the sense of formal power series: \[\int_{-\infty}^\infty [y^m] \,\operatorname{exp}\, \bigg(-\frac{t^{2}}{2}+\sum_{j\geqslant 3}\frac{(it)^{j}}{j!} y^{j-2}\bigg)\text{d} t = \int_{-\infty}^\infty [y^m] \,\operatorname{exp}\, \bigg(-\frac{t^{2}}{2} + \sum_{j\geqslant 3} \frac{(it)^{j}}{j} y^{j-2}\bigg) \text{d} t,\] for \(m=0, 1, \ldots\), where \([y^m]f(y)\) denotes the coefficient of \(y^m\) in the Taylor expansion of \(f\), which arises from applying the saddle-point method to derive Stirling's formula. The generality of the same approach (saddle-point method over two different contours) is also examined, together with some applications to asymptotic enumeration.
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    saddle-point method
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    Cauchy's integral representation
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