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I am looking to see if there are any canonical references that deal with the following summation:

$$\sum_{i=1}^m{(m+1-i)i^p}$$

Here, $p\in \mathbb{N}$ I don't know if there has been published work with these. I have a particular generating function that I"m looking at

$$g(x)=\frac{1}{(1-x)^m(1-2x)^{m-1}...(1-(m-1)x)^2(1-mx)}$$

and i don't know if there are any papers or textbooks dealing with it. I do know it can be written as a double sum

$$\sum_{j=1}^m\sum_{i=1}^ji^p$$

And i know sums of powers can be expressed in terms of bernoulli numbers, but I can't crack the double sum and was wondering if it could be done using bernoulli numbers or some other type of combinatorical sequence of numbers.

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    Why not multiply it out and apply Faulhaber's formula?2017-01-13
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    I will try that.2017-01-13

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