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Recently, interest in shuffle algebra has been renewed due to their connections with multiple zeta values. In this paper, we prove a new shuffle convolution that implies a reduction formula for the multiple zeta value z({5,1}n).
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Yee, A.J. A New Shuffle Convolution for Multiple Zeta Values. J Algebr Comb 21, 55–69 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-005-6280-y
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