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Results which allow either the computatmn of symbolic solutions to first-order-linear difference equauons or the determination that solutions of a certain form do not exist are presented. Starting with a field of constants, larger fields may be constructed by the formal adjunctlon of symbols whtch behave hke solutions to first-order-linear equations (with a few restrictions) It IS in these extension fields that the difference equations may be posed and m which the solutions are requested. The principal apphcatmn of these results is In finding formulas for a broad class of finite sums or In showing the nonexistence of such formulas.
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