Sums of Powers of Binomials, Their Apéry Limits, and Franel’s Suspicions

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAC125MaRDI QIDQ6097883zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Armin Straub, Wadim Zudilin

Publication date 7 June 2023

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09576

zbMATH Keywords

binomial coefficientsfactorialsrecurrencesspecial sequences and polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recurrences (11B37) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83)

Abstract: We explicitly determine the Ap'ery limits for the sums of powers of binomial coefficients. As an application, we prove a weak version of Franel's conjecture on the order of the recurrences for these sequences. Namely, we prove the conjectured minimal order under the assumption that such a recurrence can be obtained via creative telescoping.

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