On the Brousseau sums $\sum_{i=1}^n i^p F_i$

Abstract

We start with new convolution formulas for $F_n - n^p$ involving only the binomial coefficients. Then, we use those to find direct formulas for the sums $\sum_{i=1}^n i^p F_{n-i}$ and $\sum_{i=1}^n i^p F_i$, and we show how our formulas connect to work in earlier papers by Ledin, Brousseau, Zeitlin, Adegoke, Shannon and Ollerton, and Kinlaw, Morris, and Thiagarajan.