A heuristic derivation of linear recurrence relations for ${\zeta }^{\prime }(-2k)$ and $\zeta (2k+1)$

Abstract

We have gone back to old methods found in the historical part of Hardy's Divergent Series well before the invention of the modern analytic continuation to use formal manipulation of harmonic sums which produce some interesting formulae. These are linear recurrence relations for $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{H}_n{n}^k$ which in turn yield linear recurrence relations for ${\zeta }^{\prime }(-k)$ and hence using the functional equation to a linear recurrence relation for ${\zeta }^{\prime }(2k)$ and $\zeta (2k+1)$. Questions of rigor have been postponed to a subsequent preprint.

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