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- XSummer - Transcendental Functions and Symbolic Summation in Form
Harmonic sums and their generalizations are extremely useful in the
evaluation of higher-order perturbative corrections in quantum field theory. Of
particular interest have been the so-called nested sums,where the harmonic sums
and their generalizations appear as building blocks, originating for example
from the expansion of generalized hypergeometric functions around integer
values of the parameters. In this Letter we discuss the implementation of
several algorithms to solve these sums by algebraic means, using the computer
algebra system Form.Comment: 21 pages, 1 figure, Late
On the interplay between hypergeometric series, Fourier-Legendre expansions and Euler sums
In this work we continue the investigation about the interplay between
hypergeometric functions and Fourier-Legendre () series
expansions. In the section "Hypergeometric series related to and
the lemniscate constant", through the FL-expansion of
(with ) we prove that all the hypergeometric
series
return rational
multiples of or the lemniscate constant, as
soon as is a polynomial fulfilling suitable symmetry constraints.
Additionally, by computing the FL-expansions of and
related functions, we show that in many cases the hypergeometric
function evaluated at can be
converted into a combination of Euler sums. In particular we perform an
explicit evaluation of In the
section "Twisted hypergeometric series" we show that the conversion of some
values into combinations of Euler sums,
driven by FL-expansions, applies equally well to some twisted hypergeometric
series, i.e. series of the form where is a
Stirling number of the first kind and
Harmonic sums, Mellin transforms and Integrals
This paper describes algorithms to deal with nested symbolic sums over
combinations of harmonic series, binomial coefficients and denominators. In
addition it treats Mellin transforms and the inverse Mellin transformation for
functions that are encountered in Feynman diagram calculations. Together with
results for the values of the higher harmonic series at infinity the presented
algorithms can be used for the symbolic evaluation of whole classes of
integrals that were thus far intractable. Also many of the sums that had to be
evaluated seem to involve new results. Most of the algorithms have been
programmed in the language of FORM. The resulting set of procedures is called
SUMMER.Comment: 31 pages LaTeX, for programs, see http://norma.nikhef.nl/~t68/summe
Multiple harmonic sums and Wolstenholme's theorem
We give a family of congruences for the binomial coefficients in terms of multiple harmonic sums, a generalization of the harmonic
numbers. Each congruence in this family (which depends on an additional
parameter ) involves a linear combination of multiple harmonic sums, and
holds . The coefficients in these congruences are integers
depending on and , but independent of . More generally, we construct
a family of congruences for , whose members
contain a variable number of terms, and show that in this family there is a
unique "optimized" congruence involving the fewest terms. The special case
and recovers Wolstenholme's theorem , valid for all primes . We also characterize those triples
for which the optimized congruence holds modulo an extra power of
: they are precisely those with either dividing the numerator of the
Bernoulli number , or .Comment: 22 page
Wolstenholme's theorem: Its Generalizations and Extensions in the last hundred and fifty years (1862--2012)
In 1862 Wolstenholme proved that for any prime the numerator of the
fraction written in reduced form is divisible by , and the numerator of
the fraction
written in reduced form is divisible by . The first of the above
congruences, the so called {\it Wolstenholme's theorem}, is a fundamental
congruence in combinatorial number theory. In this article, consisting of 11
sections, we provide a historical survey of Wolstenholme's type congruences and
related problems. Namely, we present and compare several generalizations and
extensions of Wolstenholme's theorem obtained in the last hundred and fifty
years. In particular, we present more than 70 variations and generalizations of
this theorem including congruences for Wolstenholme primes. These congruences
are discussed here by 33 remarks.
The Bibliography of this article contains 106 references consisting of 13
textbooks and monographs, 89 papers, 3 problems and Sloane's On-Line Enc. of
Integer Sequences. In this article, some results of these references are cited
as generalizations of certain Wolstenholme's type congruences, but without the
expositions of related congruences. The total number of citations given here is
189.Comment: 31 pages. We provide a historical survey of Wolstenholme's type
congruences (1862-2012) including more than 70 related results and 106
references. This is in fact version 2 of the paper extended with congruences
(12) and (13
Large scale analytic calculations in quantum field theories
We present a survey on the mathematical structure of zero- and single scale
quantities and the associated calculation methods and function spaces in higher
order perturbative calculations in relativistic renormalizable quantum field
theories.Comment: 25 pages Latex, 1 style fil
On Differences of Zeta Values
Finite differences of values of the Riemann zeta function at the integers are
explored. Such quantities, which occur as coefficients in Newton series
representations, have surfaced in works of Maslanka, Coffey, Baez-Duarte, Voros
and others. We apply the theory of Norlund-Rice integrals in conjunction with
the saddle point method and derive precise asymptotic estimates. The method
extends to Dirichlet L-functions and our estimates appear to be partly related
to earlier investigations surrounding Li's criterion for the Riemann
hypothesis.Comment: 18 page
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