scholarly journals Some integrals involving Legendre polynomials providing combinatorial identities

Author(s):  
Anthony D. Klemm ◽  
Sigurd Y. Larsen

AbstractAn integral involving a combination of Legendre polynomials, exponential and algebraic terms is solved using the generating function. Special cases of this result are compared with known expansions, and the previously known results are shown to be extendible to a particularly pleasing result as a limiting case. Comparisons provide some new combinatorial identities involving binomials. Finally, an effective numerical procedure is described which evaluates the integral to machine accuracy.

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-316
Author(s):  
Reshma Sanjhira

Abstract We propose a matrix analogue of a general inverse series relation with an objective to introduce the generalized Humbert matrix polynomial, Wilson matrix polynomial, and the Rach matrix polynomial together with their inverse series representations. The matrix polynomials of Kiney, Pincherle, Gegenbauer, Hahn, Meixner-Pollaczek etc. occur as the special cases. It is also shown that the general inverse matrix pair provides the extension to several inverse pairs due to John Riordan [An Introduction to Combinatorial Identities, Wiley, 1968].


2014 ◽  
Vol Vol. 16 no. 1 (Combinatorics) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toufik Mansour ◽  
Mark Shattuck ◽  
Mark Wilson

Combinatorics International audience A composition is a sequence of positive integers, called parts, having a fixed sum. By an m-congruence succession, we will mean a pair of adjacent parts x and y within a composition such that x=y(modm). Here, we consider the problem of counting the compositions of size n according to the number of m-congruence successions, extending recent results concerning successions on subsets and permutations. A general formula is obtained, which reduces in the limiting case to the known generating function formula for the number of Carlitz compositions. Special attention is paid to the case m=2, where further enumerative results may be obtained by means of combinatorial arguments. Finally, an asymptotic estimate is provided for the number of compositions of size n having no m-congruence successions.


1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (03) ◽  
pp. 645-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Brockwell

Conditions are derived under which a probability measure on the Borel subsets of [0, ∞) is a stationary distribution for the content {Xt } of an infinite dam whose cumulative input {At } is a pure-jump Lévy process and whose release rate is a non-decreasing continuous function r(·) of the content. The conditions are used to find stationary distributions in a number of special cases, in particular when and when r(x) = x α and {A t } is stable with index β ∊ (0, 1). In general if EAt , < ∞ and r(0 +) > 0 it is shown that the condition sup r(x)>EA 1 is necessary and sufficient for a stationary distribution to exist, a stationary distribution being found explicitly when the conditions are satisfied. If sup r(x)>EA 1 it is shown that there is at most one stationary distribution and that if there is one then it is the limiting distribution of {Xt } as t → ∞. For {At } stable with index β and r(x) = x α , α + β = 1, we show also that complementing results of Brockwell and Chung for the zero-set of {Xt } in the cases α + β < 1 and α + β > 1. We conclude with a brief treatment of the finite dam, regarded as a limiting case of infinite dams with suitably chosen release functions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-273
Author(s):  
Steven N. Harding ◽  
Alexander W. N. Riasanovsky

AbstractBased on the seminal work of Hutchinson, we investigate properties of α-weighted Cantor measures whose support is a fractal contained in the unit interval. Here, α is a vector of nonnegative weights summing to 1, and the corresponding weighted Cantor measure μα is the unique Borel probability measure on [0, 1] satisfying {\mu ^\alpha }(E) = \sum\nolimits_{n = 0}^{N - 1} {{\alpha _n}{\mu ^\alpha }(\varphi _n^{ - 1}(E))} where ϕn : x ↦ (x + n)/N. In Sections 1 and 2 we examine several general properties of the measure μα and the associated Legendre polynomials in L_{{\mu ^\alpha }}^2 [0, 1]. In Section 3, we (1) compute the Laplacian and moment generating function of μα, (2) characterize precisely when the moments Im = ∫[0,1]xm dμα exhibit either polynomial or exponential decay, and (3) describe an algorithm which estimates the first m moments within uniform error ε in O((log log(1/ε)) · m log m). We also state analogous results in the natural case where α is palindromic for the measure να attained by shifting μα to [−1/2, 1/2].


1931 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Aitken

In an earlier paper, which this note is intended to supplement and in some respects improve, the writer gave a general theorem of duality relating to isobaric determinants with elements Cr and Hr, the elementary and the complete homogeneous symmetric functions of a set of variables. The result was shewn to include as special cases the dual forms of “bi-alternant” symmetric functions given by Jacobi and Naegelsbach, as well as two equivalent forms of isobaric determinant used by MacMahon as a generating function in an important problem of permutations.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (07) ◽  
pp. 1695-1709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Necdet Batir

For any [Formula: see text] we first give new proofs for the following well-known combinatorial identities [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and then we produce the generating function and an integral representation for [Formula: see text]. Using them we evaluate many interesting finite and infinite harmonic sums in closed form. For example, we show that [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] are generalized harmonic numbers defined below.


2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (04) ◽  
pp. 981-989
Author(s):  
B. S. El-desouky ◽  
F. A. Shiha ◽  
A. M. Magar

In this paper we give an extension of the results of the generalized waiting time problem given by El-Desouky and Hussen (1990). An urn contains m types of balls of unequal numbers, and balls are drawn with replacement until first duplication. In the case of finite memory of order k, let ni be the number of type i, i = 1, 2, …, m. The probability of success pi = ni/N, i = 1, 2, …, m, where ni is a positive integer and Let Ym,k be the number of drawings required until first duplication. We obtain some new expressions of the probability function, in terms of Stirling numbers, symmetric polynomials, and generalized harmonic numbers. Moreover, some special cases are investigated. Finally, some important new combinatorial identities are obtained.


1975 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. L. Guckes

The volumetric flow rate for the steady flow of power-law and Bingham-plastic fluids in eccentric annuli is presented as a series of dimensionless plots. The plots cover a broad range of fluid properties, pipe diameters, eccentricity, and pressure drop. These relationships were obtained by numerically integrating the velocity profile resulting from a finite difference solution of the equations of continuity and motion after transformation into bipolar coordinates. The numerical procedure was verified by comparing calculations with previously published results for the special cases of Newtonian flow in an eccentric annulus and non-Newtonian flow in a concentric annulus and with limited experimental data for Bingham-plastic flow in an eccentric annulus.


1993 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Farr

AbstractThe Whitney quasi-rank generating function, which generalizes the Whitney rank generating function (or Tutte polynomial) of a graph, is introduced. It is found to include as special cases the weight enumerator of a (not necessarily linear) code, the percolation probability of an arbitrary clutter and a natural generalization of the chromatic polynomial. The crucial construction, essentially equivalent to one of Kung, is a means of associating, to any function, a rank-like function with suitable properties. Some of these properties, including connections with the Hadamard transform, are discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (05) ◽  
pp. 1750033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhonghua Li ◽  
Chen Qin

In this paper, the extended double shuffle relations for interpolated multiple zeta values (MZVs) are established. As an application, Hoffman’s relations for interpolated MZVs are proved. Furthermore, a generating function for sums of interpolated MZVs of fixed weight, depth and height is represented by hypergeometric functions, and we discuss some special cases.


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