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# On the sum of inverse binomial

In this post we are discussing the sum

In Staver was the first to study the sum . He observed that . He was , then , able to extract the recursive relation

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He then proved a great result which is well known in literature

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Later, in Rocket combining the identity

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along with induction he was able to give another proof of . In Surin provided another proof using the well known integral representation of the binomial coefficient,

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Since then the cases and have been studied extensively. However, Mansour generalising the idea of Sury provided a theorem which states the following:

Theorem [Mansour]: Let be non negative integers and be given by

where are two functions defined on . Let , be two sequences and , be their corresponding generating functions. Then,

Proof: The proof is a standard generating type one and is left to the reader.

Using the above theorem along with equation we can generate wonderful stuff. For example:

Example 1: Pick and . Then

which , after a bit of transformations gives the general result

Fabulous, isn’t it? If we set we get equation . Of course there are other applications of the above theorem. We can establish a similar equality for the sum . Another relation that can be established by the above theorem is the following:

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We are not gonna go into a deep analysis but the following equalities also hold:

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and

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