Higher Apéry-limit conjecture for sums of powers of binomial coefficients

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Let

A(d)(n)=∑k=0n(nk)dA^{(d)}(n)=\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}^d

be the sum of the ddth powers of the binomial coefficients. Let the minimal-order recurrence satisfied by A(d)(n)A^{(d)}(n) have solutions normalized by C(d)(0)=0C^{(d)}(0)=0 and C(d)(1)=1C^{(d)}(1)=1.

Higher Apéry-limit conjecture. For d≥5d\geq 5, there is a unique such solution C(d)(n)C^{(d)}(n) satisfying

lim⁡n→∞C(d)(n)A(d)(n)=3(5d+2)(d+1)(d+2)(d+3)ζ(4).\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{C^{(d)}(n)}{A^{(d)}(n)}=\frac{3(5d+2)}{(d+1)(d+2)(d+3)}\zeta(4).

The formula is supported by numerical evidence for 5≤d≤105\leq d\leq 10, where the corresponding limits were computed to high precision. No general proof is given in the source, so the conjecture remains open.

References

Primary source

Marc Chamberland and Armin Straub, “Apéry Limits: Experiments and Proofs”, arXiv:2011.03400 (2020).

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