an exercise in Comtet's Advanced Combinatorics
Emeric Deutsch
deutsch at duke.poly.edu
Fri Feb 20 06:42:15 CET 2004
Dear Seqfans,
I am checking a statement in Exercise 13 on p. 260 and I do
not get the desired answer. Just above the table on p. 261, the
bivariate generating function is given:
> g:=((1-u)*(1-sin(v+t*cos(v)))-1)/(1+u):
> # where u=sin(v) i.e.
> v:=arcsin(u):
> # I expand g in a series of powers of t:
> g1:=simplify(series(g,t=0,8)):
> # the coefficients of t^n (polynomials in u) do not have nonnegative
coefficients; for example
> expand(3!*coeff(g1,t^3));
3 4
1 - 2 u + 2 u - u
Am I doing something wrong? I'd appreciate your opinion, I mean help.
Many thanks.
Emeric
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