A generalized Prouhet–Thue–Morse identity for products of binary sums

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Let k1k\geq 1 and let a1,,aka_{1},\ldots,a_{k} be nonnegative integers. Put A=(a1,,ak)A=(a_{1},\ldots,a_{k}) and let X=(x,x1,,xk)X=(x,x_{1},\ldots,x_{k}) be a vector of variables. Define

GA(X)=i1=02a11ik=02ak1(1)j=1ks2(ij)(x+j=1kijxj)j=1kaj.G_{A}(X)=\sum_{i_{1}=0}^{2^{a_{1}}-1}\cdots\sum_{i_{k}=0}^{2^{a_{k}}-1}(-1)^{\sum_{j=1}^{k}s_{2}(i_{j})}\Bigl(x+\sum_{j=1}^{k}i_{j}x_{j}\Bigr)^{\sum_{j=1}^{k}a_{j}}.

The generalized Prouhet–Thue–Morse identity. One has

GA(X)=(1)j=1kaj2j=1kaj(aj1)2(j=1kaj)!j=1kxjaj.G_{A}(X)=(-1)^{\sum_{j=1}^{k}a_{j}}2^{\sum_{j=1}^{k}\frac{a_{j}(a_{j}-1)}{2}}\Bigl(\sum_{j=1}^{k}a_{j}\Bigr)!\prod_{j=1}^{k}x_{j}^{a_{j}}.

This is proposed as a generalization of identities proved earlier in the paper for the Prouhet–Thue–Morse sequence. Its status is not established in the supplied text.

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Jakub Byszewski and Maciej Ulas, “Some identities involving Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence and its relatives”, arXiv:1409.8118 (2014).

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