Closed-form formulas and properties of coefficients in Maclaurin's series expansion of Wilf's function

2021 
In the paper, with the aid of the Fa\`a di Bruno formula, be virtue of several identities for the Bell polynomials of the second kind, with the help of two combinatorial identities, by means of the (logarithmically) complete monotonicity of generating functions of several integer sequences, and in the light of Wronski's theorem, the authors establish Taylor's series expansions of several functions involving the inverse (hyperbolic) tangent function, find out Maclaurin's series expansion of a complex function posed by Herbert S. Wilf, and analyze some properties, including generating functions, limits, positivity, monotonicity, and logarithmic convexity, of the coefficients in Maclaurin's series expansion of Wilf's function. These coefficients in Maclaurin's series expansion of Wilf's function are closed-form expressions in terms of the Stirling numbers of the second kind. The authors also derive a closed-form formula for a sequence of special values of Gauss' hypergeometric function, discover a closed-form formula for a sequence of special values of the Bell polynomials of the second kind, present several infinite series representations of the circular constant Pi and other sequences, recover an asymptotic rational approximation to the circular constant Pi, and connect several integer sequences by determinants.
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