TITLE: Prove $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}{2^n(n^2-n\pi+1)(n^2+n-1)\over (2n+1)(2n+3){2n\choose n}}=1$
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: $$S=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}{2^n(n^2-n\pi+1)(n^2+n-1)\over (2n+1)(2n+3){2n\choose n}}=1$$
Beta function
$${1\over {2n\choose n}}=n\int_{0}^{1}x^{n-1}(1-x)^ndx$$
$$\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}{2^n\over {2n\choose n}}=\int_{0}^{1}{2(1-t)\over [1-2t(1-t)]^2}dt$$
We can split out the sum
$$\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}{2^{n-1}(n^2-n\pi+1)\over (2n+1){2n\choose n}}-\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}{2^{n-1}(n^2+n-1)\over (2n+3){2n\choose n}}=1$$
With out the denominator $2n+1$ and $2n+3$ We can apply the beta function directly and integrate. I don't how to get the factors $2n+1$ and $2n+3$ with the beta function. Any hints on how to prove S?

REPLY [9 votes]: This answer  is divided  into  several steps.

Overview: 
At first  we show
  \begin{align*}
\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n}}{n\binom{2n}{n}}=\frac{2x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}}\arcsin(x)\qquad\qquad  |x|<1\tag{1}
\end{align*}
With   a    small  trick we derive the generating function
  \begin{align*}
\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n}}{(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}
=\frac{1}{x\sqrt{1-x^2}}\arcsin(x)
\end{align*}
  just as intermediate step to derive the following series as basis for further calculations:
  \begin{align*}
A(x):=\frac{1}{2}\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{n}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}
=\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{x}\sqrt{\frac{2}{x}-1}\cdot\arcsin\left(\sqrt{\frac{x}{2}}\right)
\end{align*}
Since  we have to additionally respect the factor $(n^2-n\pi+1)(n^2+n-1)$ in the numerator of OPs series we apply the differential operator $D_x$ and calculate from $A(x)$
  \begin{align*}
(xD_x)^kA(x)&=\frac{1}{2}\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{n^k(2x)^{n}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}\qquad\qquad k=1,\ldots,4
\end{align*}
  These are  the building blocks to finally calculate OPs series.

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Generating function with reciprocal central binomial coefficient:
The central binomial coefficient can be represented with the Betafunction as
  \begin{align*}
\frac{1}{\binom{2n}{n}}&=\frac{\left(n!\right)^2}{(2n)!}=\frac{n\Gamma(n)\Gamma(n+1)}{\Gamma(2n+1)}\\
&=n\beta(n+1,n)\\
&=n\int_0^1t^n(1-t)^{n-1}
\end{align*}
We obtain
  \begin{align*}
\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n}}{n\binom{2n}{n}}&=\sum_{n=1}^\infty(2x)^{2n}\int_0^1t^n(1-t)^{n-1}dt\\
&=\frac{1}{1-t}\int_0^1\sum_{n=1}^\infty(4x^2t)^n(1-t)^{n}dt\\
&=\frac{1}{1-t}\int_0^1\frac{4x^2t}{1-4x^2t(1-t)}dt
\end{align*}

Substituting $x(2t-1)=s$ gives
\begin{align*}
x(2t-1)&=s\qquad &x^2(4t^2-4t+1)&=s^2\\
2xdt&=ds\qquad &4x^2t^2-4x^2t&=s^2-x^2
\end{align*}

We get
  \begin{align*}
\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n}}{n\binom{2n}{n}}&=\int_{-x}^x\frac{s+x}{s^2+(1-x^2)}ds\\
&=\left.\frac{1}{2}\log(s^2-x^2+1)\right|_{-x}^{x}+\left.\frac{x}{1-x^2}\arctan\left(\frac{s}{\sqrt{1-x^2}}\right)\right|_{-x}^x\\
&=\frac{2x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}}\arctan\left(\frac{x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}}\right)\\
&=\frac{2x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}}\arcsin\left(\frac{\frac{x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}}}{\sqrt{\frac{x^2}{1-x^2}+1}}\right)\\
&=\frac{2x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}}\arcsin\left(x\right)\\
\end{align*}
  and (1) follows.

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Generating function of $A(x)$:
We derive a generating function for
\begin{align*}
A(x)=\frac{1}{2}\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{n}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}\tag{2}
\end{align*}
We do it in three steps. At first we show
  \begin{align*}
\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{n}}{(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}=\frac{1}{x\sqrt{1-x^2}}\arcsin(x)\tag{3}
\end{align*}

Since 
\begin{align*}
\frac{1}{2n+1}\binom{2n}{n}^{-1}&=\frac{1}{2n+1}\cdot\frac{(n!)^2}{(2n)!}\cdot\frac{2(n+1)^2}{2(n+1)^2}\\
&=\frac{2}{n+1}\cdot\frac{((n+1)!)^2}{(2n+2)!}\\
&=\frac{2}{n+1}\binom{2n+2}{n+1}^{-1}\tag{4}
\end{align*}

we get from (1)
  \begin{align*}
\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n}}{(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}
&=2\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n}}{(n+1)\binom{2n+2}{n+1}}\\
&=2\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n-2}}{n\binom{2n}{n}}\\
&=\frac{1}{x\sqrt{1-x^2}}\arcsin(x)\\
&=1+\frac{2}{3}x^2+\frac{8}{15}x^4+\frac{16}{35}x^6+\frac{128}{315}x^8+\cdots
\end{align*}

Substituting $n$ with $n+1$ in (4) gives
\begin{align*}
\frac{1}{2n+3}\binom{2n+2}{n+1}^{-1}=\frac{2}{n+2}\binom{2n+4}{n+2}^{-1}
\end{align*}

We get from (2)
  \begin{align*}
\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n}}{(2n+3)\binom{2n+2}{n+1}}
&=2\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n}}{(n+2)\binom{2n+4}{n+2}}\tag{5}\\
&=2\sum_{n=2}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n-4}}{n\binom{2n}{n}}\\
&=\frac{1}{4x^3\sqrt{1-x^2}}\arcsin(x)-\frac{1}{4x^2}\\
&=\frac{1}{6}+\frac{2}{15}x^2+\frac{4}{35}x^4+\frac{32}{315}x^6+\frac{64}{693}x^8+\cdots
\end{align*}

On the other hand we get from (4)
\begin{align*}
\frac{1}{2n+3}\binom{2n+2}{n+1}^{-1}=\frac{1}{2n+3}\cdot\frac{n+1}{2n+1}\cdot \frac{1}{2}\binom{2n}{n}^{-1}
\end{align*}

and from this identity we obtain from (5)
  \begin{align*}
\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(2x)^{2n}}{(2n+3)\binom{2n+2}{n+1}}
&=\frac{1}{2}\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(n+1)(2x)^{2n}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}\tag{6}\\
&=\frac{1}{4x^3\sqrt{1-x^2}}\arcsin(x)-\frac{1}{4x^2}
\end{align*}

We want to get rid of $n+1$ in the numerator in (6) in order    to obtain the series $A(x)$. We  substitute
\begin{align*}
x\rightarrow \sqrt{\frac{u}{2}}
\end{align*}
and then we integrate the series.
We obtain from (6) by this substitution
\begin{align*}
\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{2^{n-1}(n+1)}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}u^n
&=\frac{1}{4\left(\frac{u}{2}\right)^{\frac{3}{2}}\sqrt{1-\frac{u}{2}}}\arctan\left(\sqrt{\frac{u}{2}}\right)-\frac{1}{2u}\tag{7}\\
&=\frac{1}{u\sqrt{u(2-u)}}\arcsin\left(\sqrt{\frac{u}{2}}\right)-\frac{1}{2u}\\
&=\frac{1}{6}+\frac{1}{15}u+\frac{1}{35}u^2+\frac{4}{315}u^3+\frac{4}{693}u^4+\frac{8}{3003}u^5+\cdots
\end{align*}

Integrating the RHS of (7) with the help of Wolfram Alpha gives $A(u)$.
\begin{align*}
A(u)&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{2^{n-1}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}u^n\\
&=\frac{1}{u}-\frac{1}{u}\sqrt{\frac{2}{u}-1}\cdot\arcsin\left(\sqrt{\frac{u}{2}}\right)\tag{8}\\
&=\frac{1}{6}+\frac{1}{30}u+\frac{1}{105}u^2+\frac{1}{315}u^3+\frac{4}{3465}u^4+\frac{4}{9009}u^5+\cdots\\
\end{align*}
  and the claim (2) follows.

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Building blocks: $(uD_u)^kA(u)$
The next step is to successively apply the operator $uD_u$ on $A(u)$ with $D_u$ the differential operator. We obtain with some help of Wolfram Alpha
  \begin{align*}\
(uD_u)A(u)&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{n2^{n-1}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}u^n\\
&=-\frac{3}{2u}+\frac{3-u}{u^2\sqrt{\frac{2}{u}-1}}\cdot\arcsin\left(\sqrt{\frac{u}{2}}\right)\tag{9}\\
&=\frac{1}{30}u+\frac{2}{105}u^2+\frac{1}{105}u^3+\frac{16}{3465}u^4+\frac{20}{9009}u^5+\cdots\\
\\
(uD_u)^2A(u)&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{n^22^{n-1}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}u^n\\
&=\frac{4u-9}{2u(u-2)}+\frac{u^2-7u+9}{u^2(u-2)\sqrt{\frac{2}{u}-1}}\cdot\arcsin\left(\sqrt{\frac{u}{2}}\right)\tag{10}\\
&=\frac{1}{30}u+\frac{4}{105}u^2+\frac{1}{35}u^3+\frac{64}{3465}u^4+\frac{100}{9009}u^5+\cdots\\
\\
(uD_u)^3A(u)&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{n^32^{n-1}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}u^n\\
&=-\frac{5u^2-25u+27}{2u(u-2)^2}-\frac{u^3-13u^2+34u-27}{u^2(u-2)^2\sqrt{\frac{2}{u}-1}}\cdot\arcsin\left(\sqrt{\frac{u}{2}}\right)\tag{11}\\
&=\frac{1}{30}u+\frac{8}{105}u^2+\frac{3}{35}u^3+\frac{256}{3465}u^4+\frac{500}{9009}u^5+\cdots\\
\\
(uD_u)^4A(u)&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{n^42^{n-1}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}u^n\\
&=\frac{6u^3-53u^2+115u-81}{2u(u-2)^3}\\
&\qquad+\frac{u^4-23u^3+89u^2-142u+81}{u^2(u-2)^3\sqrt{\frac{2}{u}-1}}\cdot\arcsin\left(\sqrt{\frac{u}{2}}\right)\tag{12}\\
&=\frac{1}{30}u+\frac{16}{105}u^2+\frac{9}{35}u^3+\frac{1024}{3465}u^4+\frac{2500}{9009}u^5+\cdots\\
\end{align*}

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Building blocks at $u=1$
We have now all the building blocks we need and derive from (8) to (12) some nice identities by setting $u=1$ and noting that $\arcsin\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)=\frac{\pi}{4}$.
\begin{align*}
A(1)&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{2^{n-1}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}=1-\frac{1}{4}\pi\\
\left.(uD_u)A(u)\right|_{u=1}&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{n2^{n-1}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}=-\frac{3}{2}+\frac{1}{2}\pi\\
\left.(uD_u)^2A(u)\right|_{u=1}&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{n^22^{n-1}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}=\frac{5}{2}-\frac{3}{4}\pi\\
\left.(uD_u)^3A(u)\right|_{u=1}&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{n^32^{n-1}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}=-\frac{7}{2}+\frac{5}{4}\pi\\
\left.(uD_u)^4A(u)\right|_{u=1}&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{n^42^{n-1}}{(2n+3)(2n+1)\binom{2n}{n}}=\frac{13}{2}-\frac{3}{2}\pi
\end{align*}

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OPs series:
Since
  \begin{align*}
(n^2-n\pi+1)(n^2+n-1)=n^4+(1-\pi)n^3-\pi n^2+(1+\pi)n-1
\end{align*}
We obtain by putting all together in OPs series
  \begin{align*}
\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}&{2^n(n^2-n\pi+1)(n^2+n-1)\over (2n+1)(2n+3){2n\choose n}}\\
&=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}{2^n(n^4+(1-\pi)n^3-\pi n^2+(1+\pi)n-1)\over (2n+1)(2n+3){2n\choose n}}\\
&=2\left.(uD_u)^4A(u)\right|_{u=1}+2(1-\pi)\left.(uD_u)^3A(u)\right|_{u=1}\\
&\qquad-2\pi\left.(uD_u)^2A(u)\right|_{u=1}+2(1+\pi)\left.(uD_u)A(u)\right|_{u=1}-2A(1)\\
&=2\left(\frac{13}{2}-\frac{3}{2}\pi\right)+2(1-\pi)\left(-\frac{7}{2}+\frac{5}{4}\pi\right)
-2\pi\left(\frac{5}{2}-\frac{3}{4}\pi\right)\\
&\qquad+2(1+\pi)\left(-\frac{3}{2}+\frac{1}{2}\pi\right)-2\left(1-\frac{1}{4}\pi\right)\\
&=1
\end{align*}
  and the claim follows.

Note: The proof of (1) is Theorem 1 in B. Sury's paper Identities Involving Reciprocals of Binomials. The small trick can be found e.g. in the proof of Theorem 2.1 in Sums of reciprocals of the central binomial coefficients by R. Sprugnoli.