The Summation Package Sigma: Underlying Principles and a Rhombus Tiling Application

We give an overview of how a huge class of multisum identities can be proven and discovered with the summation package Sigma implemented in the computer algebra system Mathematica. General principles of symbolic summation are discussed. We illustrate the usage of Sigma by showing how one can fi...

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Main Author: Carsten Schneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2004-12-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://www.dmtcs.org/dmtcs-ojs/index.php/dmtcs/article/view/195