One of these 2 is the generating function. Setting z=0, we can quickly see that first one blows up as z->0 so must be second one.
Singularity occurs either where denominator is zero (0 or ±1, but we know analytic at z=0 as it is a generating function.) or where square root is zero. Let's find where square root is zero.
This is our (unique) dominant singularity. (It is smaller in magnitude than the singularities z=±1 caused by the denominator.)
The next few commands are to simply divide poly by (1-z/r) to get poly2 and then check that this worked.
This is close to poly, so our polynomial division worked.
This is the portion next to the singularity, (1-z/r)^(1/2).
So V_n ~ 1.27613*(1.80776)^n*n^(-3/2)
We can use the above series to check our asymptotics. Let's pull out the term in front of the z^500.
This shows our asymptotics to be close at n=500. By the same method we can check at other n, or write a program to compare for all n.
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