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Jayanta Phadikar

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Certified Arbitrary-Precision Evaluation of a Family of Generalized Multiple Zeta Functions

We describe a certified arbitrary-precision framework for evaluating a family of generalized multiple zeta functions. The family includes strict and weak-star chain sums, ordinary and colored multiple zeta values, affine-base and polynomial-base variants, and composite levels containing several affine or polynomial letters with complex coefficients. The numerical strategy combines finite-prefix recurrences with two complementary analytic-tail mechanisms: recursive Euler-Maclaurin expansion of one-variable tails and direct absolute tail majorants. The Euler-Maclaurin branch is fast when the relevant suffix expansions are regular, while the direct-tail branch gives robust certificates for multi-letter, weak-star, complex-coefficient, and branch-sensitive inputs. A computation is called certified only when its reported radius is obtained from a proved analytic bound for the omitted infinite tail. Strict-disk colored sums and boundary-color cases with summable absolute majorants are therefore within the certified scope; conditionally convergent colored cases whose convergence relies only on non-one unit-modulus oscillation are kept separate and reported as explicitly non-certified diagnostic outputs unless an independent analytic remainder bound is available.

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Monoidal Alphabets for Generalized Harmonic Sums

We develop a general finite-alphabet framework for Euler-type sums based on the notion of a monoidal alphabet. An alphabet of summand letters is called monoidal when it is closed under pointwise multiplication, thereby inducing the usual stuffle, or quasi-shuffle, algebra on the associated nested sums. This viewpoint places classical multiple harmonic numbers, colored harmonic sums, and several generalized Euler sums under a common structural mechanism. We focus on three fundamental families of monoidal alphabets: the ordinary power alphabet generated by $n$, the affine alphabet generated by linear factors $an+b$, and the polynomial-base alphabet generated by polynomial factors $P(n)$. The resulting classes of multiple harmonic numbers, multiple affine harmonic numbers, and multiple polynomial-base harmonic numbers provide systematic containers for a wide range of finite and infinite Euler-type sums. We prove closure and lifting results showing that nested sums whose summands are built from these alphabets, possibly multiplied by harmonic-number factors, reduce to the corresponding finite harmonic-number objects. As consequences, the framework recovers many known Euler-sum identities and produces many new identities in a uniform way. While reduction to simpler functions remains a separate and often difficult problem, the monoidal-alphabet perspective provides a unified algebraic language for organizing, transforming, and extending harmonic-sum identities.

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