Integral identities for rational series involving binomial coefficients (Q648456)

As the author has masterly done also elsewhere [\textit{A. Sofo}, Computational techniques for the summation of series. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2003; Zbl 1059.65002), J. Integer Seq. 9, No. 4, Article 06.4.5, 13 p. (2006; Zbl 1108.11021), Int. J. Comb. 2011, Article ID 208260, 14 p. (2011; Zbl 1282.11011), Anal. Math. 37, No. 1, 51--64 (2011; Zbl 1240.33006), Hacet. J. Math. Stat. 39, No. 2, 255--263 (2010; Zbl 1198.05010), Appl. Math. Comput. 207, No. 2, 365--372 (2009; Zbl 1175.11007), Integral Transforms Spec. Funct. 20, No. 11-12, 847--857 (2009; Zbl 1242.11014)] this paper deepens topics related to harmonic numbers. Here the author establishes integral identities for series involving binomial coefficients; using such identities he demonstrates that they may, in some cases, be represented in closed form of rational type: some results are completely new and one is recaptured, through a different proof, from \textit{J. L. Díaz-Barrero, J. Gibergans-Báguena} and \textit{P. G. Popescu} [Appl. Anal. Discrete Math. 1, No. 2, 397--402 (2007; Zbl 1220.11024)]. Let \(Q^{(p)} (an,z)\) be the \(p\)th derivative of the reciprocal binomial coefficient \[ Q(an,z)= {{an+z}\choose {z}}^{-1} \] then the integral representation for series investigated in the present paper has the form \[ {\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} {t^n} {{n+m-1}\choose {n}}} Q^{(p)} (an,z) = \int{f(a,z,m,t;x) \,dx} \] for positive parameters \(a\), \(m\), \(z\), \(p\) and real parameter \(t\). Beyond expert algebraic manipulations (like differentiating by taking logs or interchanging sums and integrals) in the proof the author employs the classical functions: Beta, Gamma, Psi (or digamma) and generalized Zeta.