Background: In a discussion in the "tetration-forum" a term $\log(x-L)/L+\log(x-L^*)/L^*$ occured, where $L$ and $L^*$ mean the (complex) primary fixpoint (and its conjugate) of the $\exp()$-function. Because the conjugate values occur symmetrically in the sum of the two formal powerseries, the result is a formal powerseries with real coefficients, and we could as well write $T(x) = 2 \cdot \Re (\log(x - L)/L) $ where $\Re()$ means the real part of its argument.
Problem: Because the exponential function has infinitely many complex fixpoints I thought what would a formal powerseries $S(x)$ look like, when it is the sum off all such $T()$ - or: when all that fixpoints are taken into account?
Let's write $L_k$ for the $k$'th fixpoint, with $L_1 \approx 0.318131505205 + 1.33723570143 \, î$ , then $$T_k(x)=2 \cdot \Re (\frac {\log(x-L_k)}{L_k}) \tag 1$$ (here, using the convention of W|A, we get the $k$'th fixpoint by $\small {L_k = \exp(-\text{productlog}(-k,-1))}$).
Now the sum of all that $T_k(x)$ (taken as formal power series) gives another formal powerseries $$ S_n(x) = \sum_{k=1}^n T_k(x) = s_{n:0} + s_{n:1} x + s_{n:2} x^2 + \cdots \tag 2 $$ where -heuristically- it seems, that for $n \to \infty$ the values of $s_{n:0}$ diverges but all other coefficients $s_{n:k}$ converge to a finite value, and moreover, to rational values.
Heuristics: Here are the leading coefficients for some $S_n(x)$ up to $n=2^{16}-1$
n s_{n:0} s_{n:1} s_{n:2} s_{n:3} s_{n:4} ....
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1 -2.44695072007 0.945130773416 0.248253690529 -0.111008639310 -0.0937330420633
3 -2.93357528303 0.982250645218 0.249909831374 -0.111105628916 -0.0937498749582
7 -3.29668141804 0.992566300100 0.249991660549 -0.111110673480 -0.0937499978358
15 -3.63438202949 0.996574875354 0.249999033336 -0.111111067412 -0.0937499999458
31 -3.96777440601 0.998353868014 0.249999876694 -0.111111106232 -0.0937499999984
63 -4.30277816467 0.999192862471 0.249999983621 -0.111111110535 -0.0937499999999
127 -4.64069484715 0.999600341105 0.249999997790 -0.111111111041 -0.0937500000000
255 -4.98130134424 0.999801140528 0.249999999701 -0.111111111102 -0.0937500000000
511 -5.32397016248 0.999900812031 0.249999999960 -0.111111111110 -0.0937500000000
1023 -5.66808038151 0.999950466396 0.249999999995 -0.111111111111 -0.0937500000000
2047 -6.01314198265 0.999975248290 0.249999999999 -0.111111111111 -0.0937500000000
4095 -6.35880718549 0.999987627918 0.250000000000 -0.111111111111 -0.0937500000000
8191 -6.70484432699 0.999993814902 0.250000000000 -0.111111111111 -0.0937500000000
16383 -7.05110555754 0.999996907687 0.250000000000 -0.111111111111 -0.0937500000000
32767 -7.39749940344 0.999998453902 0.250000000000 -0.111111111111 -0.0937500000000
65535 -7.74397059311 0.999999226966 0.250000000000 -0.111111111111 -0.0937500000000
....
Conjecture 1: coefficients $s_{n:k}$ are rational in the limit for $n \to \infty$ (except for $s_{n:0}$ which diverges to $-\infty$)
If we assume, that indeed that coefficients converge to rational values, we can arrive at a sequence of integer coefficients by a very simple rational scaling:
$$\begin{array} {} \lim_{n \to \infty} S_n(x)= S(x)&= s_0 &+ 1\cdot x + 1\cdot \frac{x^2}{2!}\frac12 − 2\cdot \frac{x^3}{3!}\frac13 − 9\cdot \frac{x^4}{4!}\frac14 \\ && + 6\cdot \frac{x^5}{5!}\frac15 + 155\cdot \frac{x^6}{6!}\frac16 + 232\cdot \frac{x^7}{7!}\frac17 + ... \end{array} \tag 3$$
Coefficients seem to be known:
The miraculous database of integer-sequences, OEIS, knows this coefficients $[1,1,-2,-9,6,155,232, \ldots]$ saying they have the exponential generating function (which I modify here slightly for my purposes):
$$ \begin{array} {} U(x) = \frac{\log(1- x\exp(-x))}x &= -1 &+ 1\cdot x\frac12 + 1\cdot \frac{x^2}{2!}\frac13 − 2\cdot \frac{x^3}{3!}\frac14 − 9\cdot \frac{x^4}{4!}\frac15 \\ &&+ 6\cdot \frac{x^5}{5!}\frac16 + 155\cdot \frac{x^6}{6!}\frac17 + ... \end{array} \tag 4$$
Here the coefficient at the constant term is $u_0=-1$ and is likely different to the value of $s_0$ which is a result of a likely divergent series.
I've a simple modification of the $U()$-function which matches then the conjectured rational coefficients of $S(x)$ even by the indexes:
$$ U_1(x)={\small{\exp(x)-1 \over \exp(x)-x} }\tag {5.a} $$ $$ U_2(x) = \int { \small{\frac{U_1(x)}x}} dx + s_0 \tag {5.b} $$ $\qquad \qquad $ $U_1$ is a reformulation of the derivative of $U(x)$ and $U_2(x)$ a termwise integration
Then Pari/GP gives me the following powerseries:
U_2(x)= s0 + x + 1/4*x^2 - 1/9*x^3 - 3/32*x^4 + 1/100*x^5 + 31/864*x^6 + 29/4410*x^7 - 63/5120*x^8 - 2087/326592*x^9 + 39593/12096000*x^10 + 45973/12196800*x^11 - 146387/522547200*x^12 - 10264123/5782233600*x^13 - 2678759/6258954240*x^14 + 833302651/1225944720000*x^15 + 46063312597/111588212736000*x^16 + O(x^17)
Conjecture 2: The coefficients of the limiting formal powerseries of $S(x)$ are the same as that of $U_2(x)$
This seems to be a nice coincidence - if the assumption (conjecture 1) of convergence of the coefficients in $S(x)$ to that rational values holds. I chewed a bit on how to approach a proof, but didn't have a promising idea yet.
Q1: how could this apparent coincidence of the limit of the sum-of-powerseries in $S(x)$ with the coefficients in $U(x)$ (or better $U_2(x)$) be proved?
Q2: can the value of $s_0$ be expressed by a regularized summation?