<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AJCM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>American Journal of Computational Mathematics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2161-1203</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/ajcm.2015.52008</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AJCM-56615</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Sums of Involving the Harmonic Numbers and the Binomial Coefficients
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>nbsp</surname><given-names>Wuyungaowa</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sudan</surname><given-names>Wang</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>School of Mathematical Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>wuyungw@163.com(NW)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>13</day><month>05</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>05</volume><issue>02</issue><fpage>96</fpage><lpage>105</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>5</day>	<month>December</month>	<year>2014</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>accepted</day>	<month>22</month>	<year>May</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>25</day>	<month>May</month>	<year>2015</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p><html>
 <head></head>
 
  Let the numbers 
  <img src="Edit_1c12ff3d-9967-4e52-9881-80bb6fc1c2ce.bmp" alt="" /> be defined by &lt;br/&gt;
  <img src="Edit_b8196020-624b-4676-a77e-96eac7b3c643.bmp" alt="" /> , where &lt;br/&gt;
  <img src="Edit_1d703d90-58d8-47c4-b217-bc4e73555375.bmp" alt="" /> and 
  <img src="Edit_280fc9c1-0d41-4832-bf7b-73d71f276711.bmp" alt="" /> are the exponential complete Bell polynomials. In this paper, by means of the methods of Riordan arrays, we establish general identities involving the numbers 
  <img src="Edit_f6f98c40-a08c-4b1e-87af-70e13926d786.bmp" alt="" />, binomial coefficients and inverse of binomial coefficients. From these identities, we deduce some identities involving binomial coefficients, Harmonic numbers and the Euler sum identities. Furthermore, we obtain the asymptotic values of some summations associated with the numbers 
  <img src="Edit_9010dbe3-0feb-419c-8eb8-581051fdc337.bmp" alt="" /> by Darboux’s method.
 
</html></p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Harmonic Numbers</kwd><kwd> Euler Sum</kwd><kwd> Riordan Arrays</kwd><kwd> Asymptotic Values</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction and Preliminaries</title><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x11.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be the exponential complete Bell polynomials and</p><p>In [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56615-ref1">1</xref>] , Zave established the following series expansion:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1651"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x12.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1652"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x13.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x14.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x15.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x16.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x17.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Spiess [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56615-ref2">2</xref>] introduced the numbers <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x18.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>; then Equation (1.1) is equivalent to</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1653"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x22.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1654"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x23.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1655"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x27.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we obtain some for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and binomial coefficients by means of the Riordan arrays. In Section 3, we establish some identities involving the numbers <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and inverse of binomial coefficients. Finally, in Section 4, we give the asymptotic expansions of some summations</p><p>involving the numbers <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> by Darboux’s method. Due to [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56615-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56615-ref4">4</xref>] , a Riordan array is a pair <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of formal power series with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. It defines an infinite lower triangular array <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> according to the rule</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1656"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x34.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Hence we write<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. If <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is an Riordan array and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the generating function of the sequence<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, i.e.,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Then we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1657"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x40.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Based on the generating function (1), we obtain the next Riordan arrays, to which we pay particular attention in the present paper:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1658"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x41.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Lemma 1 (see [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56615-ref5">5</xref>] ) Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a real number and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. When<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1659"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x45.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1660"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x46.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Identities Involving the Numbers <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and Binomial Coefficients</title><p>Theorem 1. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1661"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x51.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. By (1), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1662"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x52.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Comparing the coefficients of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> on both sides of (5), we completes the proof of Theorem 1.</p><p>Recall that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x54.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Thus, setting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x54.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x55.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Theorem 1 gives the next three identities, respectively.</p><p>Corollary 1. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x56.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x56.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, the following relations hold</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1663"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x58.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Theorem 2. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x60.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1664"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x61.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. To obtain the result, make use of the Theorem 1.</p><p>Theorem 3. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1665"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x64.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. Applying the summation property (2) to the Riordan arrays (3), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1666"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x65.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which is just the desired result.</p><p>Setting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Theorem 3 gives the next Corollary.</p><p>Corollary 2 Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x67.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1667"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x68.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Corollary 3 Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1668"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x71.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1669"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x72.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. Setting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Theorem 3 gives Corollary 3.</p><p>Corollary 4. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1670"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x75.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. Setting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Corollary 2 yields Corollary 4.</p><p>Theorem 4. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1671"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x79.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. which is just the desired result.</p><p>Setting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Theorem 4 gives the next Corollary.</p><p>Corollary 5. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1672"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x82.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Corollary 6. The substitutions <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Theorem 4 gives the next four identities, respectively.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1673"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x84.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Setting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x85.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Corollary 5 gives the next four identities, respectively.</p><p>Corollary 7. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1674"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x87.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Theorem 5. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1675"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x90.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x91.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are the Stirling numbers of the first kind.</p><p>Proof. By (1) and (2), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1676"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x92.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which is just the desired result.</p><p>Setting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x93.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Theorem 5 gives the next Corollary.</p><p>Corollary 8. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1677"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x95.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Setting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Theorem 6 gives the next Corollary.</p><p>Corollary 9. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1678"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x99.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We give four applications of Corollary 9:</p><p>Corollary 10. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x100.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1679"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x101.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Identities Involving <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x102.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and Inverse of Binomial Coefficients</title><p>For identities involving Harmonic numbers and inverse of binomial coefficients <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x103.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in given in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56615-ref6">6</xref>] .</p><p>In Section, we obtain some for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and binomial coefficients by means of the Riordan arrays. From these identities, we deduce some identities involving binomial coefficients, Harmonic numbers and identities related to<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x105.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x105.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x106.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>In [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56615-ref7">7</xref>] , the inverse of a binomial coefficient is related to an integral, as follows</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1680"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x107.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>From the generating function of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and (10), we have</p><p>Theorem 6. For <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be any integer, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1681"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x110.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. From (1) and (10), we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1682"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x111.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>This gives (11).</p><p>Corollary 11 Setting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Theorem 6, The following relation holds:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1683"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x113.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1684"><label>(13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x114.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1685"><label>(14)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x115.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1686"><label>(15)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x116.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Setting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x117.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in Corollary 11, gives the next identities.</p><p>Corollary 12 The following relation holds</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1687"><label>(16)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x118.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1688"><label>(17)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x119.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1689"><label>(18)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x120.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1690"><label>(19)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x121.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1691"><label>(20)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x122.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1692"><label>(21)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x123.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1693"><label>(22)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x124.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1694"><label>(23)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x125.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Corollary 13. The following relation holds</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1695"><label>(24)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x126.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1696"><label>(25)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x127.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1697"><label>(26)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x128.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1698"><label>(27)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x129.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. (16) minus(20) give (24); (17) minus (21), (18) minus (22) and (19) minus (23), yields (25), (26) and (27), respectively.</p><p>Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) had already stated the equation</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1699"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x130.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Recall the Euler sum identities [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56615-ref8">8</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56615-ref9">9</xref>] .</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1700"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x131.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The next, we gives identities related to<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>For completeness we supply proofs:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1701"><label>(28)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x134.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1702"><label>(29)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x135.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Similarly, we obtain summation formulas related<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x136.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x136.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x137.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1703"><label>(30)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x138.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1704"><label>(31)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x139.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By (18) and (28), (19) and (31), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1705"><label>(32)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x140.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1706"><label>(33)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x141.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Similarly, for completeness we supply a proof:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1707"><label>(34)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x142.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By (28) minus (30), we get</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1708"><label>(35)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x143.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Applying (25) and (34), (26) and (32), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1709"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x144.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Asymptotics</title><p>Theorem 7 For <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be any integer, as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1710"><label>(36)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x147.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. By Lemma 1, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1711"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x148.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and this complete the proof.</p><p>Similarly, we can obtain the next Theorem.</p><p>Theorem 8. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be any integer, as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1712"><label>(37)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x151.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Theorem 9. For <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be any integer, as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x153.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1713"><label>(38)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x154.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. By Lemma 1, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1714"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x155.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>this give (38).</p><p>Theorem 10. For <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x156.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be any integer, as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x156.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x157.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56615-formula1715"><label>(39)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1100402x158.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. By Corollary 3 of [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56615-ref10">10</xref>] , immediately complete the proof of Theorem 10.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>The author would like to thank an anonymous referee whose helpful suggestions and comments have led to much improvement of the paper. 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