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Apéry sequences and legendre transforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Yuan Jin
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Northwest University710069 Xi'an Shaanxi Province P. R.China e-mail: [email protected]
H. Dickinson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of York Heslington YorkYO10 5DDEngland e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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A lower bound for the minimal length of the polynomial recurrence of a binomial sum is obtained.

MSC classification

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2000

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