Friday, 24 February 2017

sequences and series - Evaluating sumn1j=0binomnjbinomnj+1

Is there a simpler expression for the following sum? (nN)
S_n =\binom{n}{0}\binom{n}{1} + \binom{n}{1}\binom{n}{2} + \dots + \binom{n}{n-1}\binom{n}{n}
It seems like S_n = \binom{2n}{n-1}, however I have no clue as to how I can prove that relation. I also tried re-writing the sum as
S_n = \binom{n}{0}\binom{n}{n-1} + \binom{n}{1}\binom{n}{n-2} + \dots + \binom{n}{n-1}\binom{n}{0} = \sum^{n-1}_{j=0}\binom{n}{j}\binom{n}{n-j-1}
Which resembles a special case of Vandemonde's Identity. Is there a connection between the two?

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