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We will start this from the beginning with the series:

$ 1+r+r^2+r^3+...+r^N=\frac{1}{1-r}-\frac{r^{N+1}}{1-r} $

From here we substitute $ r=-x^2 $ to get

$ 1-x^2+x^4-x^6+...+(-1)^Nx^{2N}=\frac{1}{1+x^2}-\frac{(-1)^{N+1}x^{2(N+1)}}{1+x^2} $

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