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For $0<\theta<\frac{\pi}{2}$ find all solutions of the equation $$\sum_{m=1}^{11}\frac{1}{\sin\left(\theta+\frac{(m+1)\pi}{4}\right)\sin\left(\theta+\frac{m\pi}{4}\right)}=4\sqrt2$$

I highly believe that this is a telescopic series but even after doing a lot of labour I couldn't find one. I tried using the method of differences but then I couldn't handle the expressions in the numerator.

I tried it by breaking it into $$-\frac{k}{\sin\left(\theta+\frac{(m+1)\pi}{4}\right)}+\frac{k}{\sin\left(\theta+\frac{m\pi}{4}\right)}$$

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Evaluating S would have been much faster if it were $\frac{(m-1)\pi}{4}$

For $0<\theta<\frac{\pi}{2}$.
$$ S=\sum_{m=1}^{11}\frac{1}{\sin\left(\theta+\frac{(m+1)\pi}{4}\right)\sin\left(\theta+\frac{m\pi}{4}\right)}=4\sqrt2$$

A key observation/trick to solving such kinds of problems include substituting the intimidating notations to simpler ones.

Put $\theta+\frac{(m+1)\pi}{4}=t$

$$ S=\sum_{m=1}^{11}\frac{1}{\sin\left(t\right)\sin\left(t-\frac{\pi}{4}\right)}$$

Multiplying and dividing with $sin\frac{\pi}{4}=\frac{1}{\sqrt2}$

$$ S=\sqrt2\sum_{m=1}^{11}\frac{sin\frac{\pi}{4}}{\sin\left(t\right)\sin\left(t-\frac{\pi}{4}\right)}$$

Now, $\frac{\pi}{4}=t+\frac{\pi}{4}-t=t-\left(t-\frac{\pi}{4}\right)$....(1)

Substituting (1) above,

$$ S=\sqrt2\sum_{m=1}^{11}\frac{sin\left(t-\left(t-\frac{\pi}{4}\right)\right)}{\sin\left(t\right)\sin\left(t-\frac{\pi}{4}\right)}$$

using $sin(a-b)=sin(a)cos(b)-cos(a)sin(b)$

$$ S=\sqrt2\sum_{m=1}^{11}\frac{sin(t)cos\left(\left(t-\frac{\pi}{4}\right)\right)-cos(t)sin\left(\left(t-\frac{\pi}{4}\right)\right)}{\sin\left(t\right)\sin\left(t-\frac{\pi}{4}\right)}$$

$$ S=\sqrt2\sum_{m=1}^{11} cot\left({t-\frac{\pi}{4}}\right)-cot(t)$$

Putting back $\theta+\frac{(m+1)\pi}{4}=t$

$$ S=\sqrt2\sum_{m=1}^{11} cot\left({\theta+\frac{m\pi}{4}}\right)-cot\left(\theta+\frac{(m+1)\pi}{4}\right)$$

On telescoping we get,

$$S=\sqrt 2 \left[cot(\theta+\frac{\pi}{4})-cot(\theta+3\pi)\right]=4\sqrt2$$

$$\left[cot(\theta+\frac{\pi}{4})-cot(\theta+3\pi)\right]=4$$

I think you can solve from here for $\theta$

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