An asymptotic series for an integral

Abstract: We obtain an asymptotic series

s u m_{j = 0}^{i} n f t y f r a c I_{j} n^{j}

for the integral

i n t_{0}^{1} [x^{n} + (1 - x)^{n}]^{f r a c 1 n} d x

as

n o i n f t y

, and compute

I_{j}

in terms of alternating (or "colored") multiple zeta value. We also show that

I_{j}

is a rational polynomial the ordinary zeta values, and give explicit formulas for

j l e 12

. As a byproduct, we obtain precise results about the convergence of norms of random variables and their moments. We study

V e r t (U, 1 - U) V e r t_{n}

as

n

tends to infinity and we also discuss

V e r t (U_{1}, U_{2}, d o t s, U_{r}) V e r t_{n}

for standard uniformly distributed random variables.

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