Symbolic summation with radical expressions

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Kauers;Carsten Schneider

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

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

An extension of Karr's summation algorithm is presented by which symbolic sums involving radical expressions can be simplified. We discuss the construction of appropriate difference fields as well as algorithms for solving difference equations in these fields. The paper is concluded by a list of identities found with an implementation of our techniques.