Abstract:
Consider the following recursively defined sequence:
$$
\tau_1 =1,\qquad \sum^n_{j=1} \frac{1}{\sum^n_{s=j}\tau_s}=1\quad \text{for}\quad n\geq 2,
$$
which originates from a heat conduction problem first studied by Myshkis (1997). Chang, Chow, and Wang (2003) proved that
$$
\tau_n = \log n +O(1) \qquad \text{for large}\quad n.
$$
In this note, we refine this result to
$$
\tau_n= \log n + \gamma+O \biggl(\frac{1}{\log n}\biggr).
$$
where $\gamma$ is the Euler constant.