Sunday 10 November 2013

calculus - Closed form for $sum_{n=1}^{infty}frac{(-1)^n}{sqrt{n^2+a^2}}$

Do the convergent sum




$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n^2+a^2}}$$



posses a closed form? ($a \in \mathbb{R}$)



Special case is known, for $a=0$ one recalls well known alternating harmonic series :



$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^n}{n}=-\ln 2$$

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