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

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 d5d\geq 5, there is a unique such solution C(d)(n)C^{(d)}(n) satisfying

limnC(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 5d105\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.

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Primary source

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

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