S ( k ) = n = 1 ∑ ∞ e 2 π n − 1 n k
Define S ( k ) as above, find S ( 5 ) 1 + S ( 9 ) 1 + S ( 1 3 ) 1 .
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Alternatively, this result can be found in the paper that gave the previous two problems!
You need to be a little more careful when differentiating the expansion for e 2 π x − 1 1 term-by term in two different ways. That is because it is not always valid to differentiate a series term-by-term. To be able to justify term-by-term differentiability, you generally need something like uniform convergence of the series and its derivative, and the series ∑ n = 1 ∞ x + i n 1 is not uniformly convergent. The problem only occurs in the first derivative, since the series ∑ n = 1 ∞ ( x ± i n ) k 1 are uniformly convergent on [ 1 , X ] for any X > 0 , which is enough.
The way round this problem is to avoid expanding ∑ n = 1 ∞ x 2 + n 2 1 , since this series is uniformly convergent on [ 1 , ∞ ) . This enables the first differentiation.
This series can also be found by Abel-plana formula n ≥ 0 ∑ ∞ f ( z ) = ∫ 0 ∞ f ( z ) d z + 2 f ( 0 ) + i ∫ 0 ∞ e 2 π z − 1 f ( i z ) − f ( − i z ) d z
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Using complex analysis, we can prove the following famous sum (proofs can be found here ) n = 1 ∑ ∞ x 2 + n 2 1 = 2 x 2 π x coth ( π x ) − 1 which rearranges to 2 π x 1 − 2 1 + π x n = 1 ∑ ∞ x 2 + n 2 1 = e 2 π x − 1 1 ⟹ 2 π x 1 − 2 1 + 2 π 1 n = 1 ∑ ∞ ( x + i n 1 + x − i n 1 ) = e 2 π x − 1 1 Note that e − 2 π x + e − 4 π x + e − 6 π x + ⋯ = 1 − e − 2 π x e − 2 π x = e 2 π x − 1 1 ⟹ e − 2 π x + e − 4 π x + e − 6 π x + ⋯ = 2 π x 1 − 2 1 + 2 π 1 n = 1 ∑ ∞ ( x + i n 1 + x − i n 1 ) Let k = 4 p + 1 where p ∈ N . Differentiating both sides k times w.r.t. x gives 1 k e − 2 π x + 2 k e − 4 π x + 3 k e − 6 π x + ⋯ = ( 2 π x ) k + 1 k ! + ( 2 π ) k + 1 k ! n = 1 ∑ ∞ ( ( x + i n ) k + 1 1 + ( x − i n ) k + 1 1 ) Summing both sides from x = 1 to ∞ gives e 2 π − 1 1 k + e 4 π − 1 2 k + e 6 π − 1 3 k + ⋯ = ( 2 π ) k + 1 k ! ζ ( k + 1 ) + ( 2 π ) k + 1 k ! x = 1 ∑ ∞ n = 1 ∑ ∞ ( ( x + i n ) k + 1 1 + ( x − i n ) k + 1 1 ) For k = 4 p + 1 where p ∈ N , the double sum on the right changes sign when interchanging x and n . Hence, the double sum is 0 for such k . ⟹ S ( k ) = n = 1 ∑ ∞ e 2 π n − 1 n k = ( 2 π ) k + 1 k ! ζ ( k + 1 ) = 2 ( k + 1 ) B k + 1 where ζ ( s ) is the Riemann zeta function and B n is the n th Bernoulli number .
and hence S ( 5 ) = 5 0 4 1 , S ( 9 ) = 2 6 4 1 , and S ( 1 3 ) = 2 4 1 .
giving S ( 5 ) 1 + S ( 9 ) 1 + S ( 1 3 ) 1 = 5 0 4 + 2 6 4 + 2 4 = 7 9 2 .