On the maximum of the weighted binomial sum (1 + a)^- r _i = 0r mi a^i

Abstract: Recently, Glasby and Paseman considered the following sequence of binomial sums

and showed that this sequence is unimodal and attains its maximum value at

r = l f l o o r f r a c m 3 f l o o r + 1

for

m i n m a t h b b Z_{g e q 0} s e t m i n u s 0, 3, 6, 9, 12

. They also analyzed the asymptotic behavior of the maximum value of the sequence as

m

approaches infinity. In the present work, we generalize their results by considering the sequence

for positive integers

a

. We also consider a family of discrete probability distributions that naturally arises from this sequence.

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