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Question: Partial Fraction expansion of a bivariate GF

Question:Partial Fraction expansion of a bivariate GF

lukeoco 5
fraction
May 30 2014
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Hi, I have a bivariate generating function that looks like this

x/((1-x)*(2-x-x^k))

where x is enumerating by binary strings by length and k is counting a number patterns in the string. I would like to convert the series into partial fractions. Convert[parfrac] only seems to work when k is given a value, which I did for several small small choices, from which I guessed the general partial fraction decomposition. Would someone have an idea on how to extract the partial fractions directly in terms of x and k?

Thanks,

best, Luke
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