Gaussian Sum
The digamma has a Gaussian sum of the form
for integers . Here, ΞΆ(s,q) is the Hurwitz zeta function and is a Bernoulli polynomial. A special case of the multiplication theorem is
and a neat generalization of this is
where q must be a natural number, but 1-qa not.
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