Application of unspecified sequences in symbolic summation

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Kauers;Carsten Schneider

  • Affiliations:
  • Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria;Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We consider symbolic sums which contain subexpressions representing unspecified sequences. Existing symbolic summation technology is extended to sums of this kind. We show how this can be applied in the systematic search for general summation identities. Both, results about the non-existence of identities of a certain form, and examples of general families of identities which we have discovered automatically are included in the paper.