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$\newcommand{\Re}{\mathrm{Re}\,} \newcommand{\pFq}[5]{{}_{#1}\mathrm{F}_{#2} \left( \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{#3}{#4} \bigg| {#5} \right)}$ % Teste onde $x$ é definido por:

Falhou a verificação gramatical (MathML, com SVG ou PNG em alternativa (recomendado para navegadores modernos e ferramentas de acessibilidade): Resposta inválida ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") do servidor "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \begin{align} \dot{x} & = \sigma(y-x) \label{eq:1}\\ \dot{y} & = \rho x - y - xz \\ \dot{z} & = -\beta z + xy \end{align}}

Equation \eqref{eq:1} above. We consider, for various values of $s$, the $n$-dimensional integral \begin{align}

 \label{def:Wns}
 W_n (s)
 &:= 
 \int_{[0, 1]^n} 
   \left| \sum_{k = 1}^n \mathrm{e}^{2 \pi \mathrm{i} \, x_k} \right|^s \mathrm{d}\boldsymbol{x}

\end{align} which occurs in the theory of uniform random walk integrals in the plane, where at each step a unit-step is taken in a random direction. As such, the integral \eqref{def:Wns} expresses the $s$-th moment of the distance to the origin after $n$ steps.

By experimentation and some sketchy arguments we quickly conjectured and strongly believed that, for $k$ a nonnegative integer \begin{align}

 \label{eq:W3k}
 W_3(k) &= \Re \, \pFq32{\frac12, -\frac k2, -\frac k2}{1, 1}{4}.

\end{align} Appropriately defined, \eqref{eq:W3k} also holds for negative odd integers. The reason for \eqref{eq:W3k} was long a mystery, but it will be explained at the end of the paper.