Which is the standard notation for an infinite summation (or any summation-like operator) without indexes?

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An infinite indexed summation is written as $\sum\limits_{i=1}^\infty i$. A summation of items in a set, finite or not, is $\sum\limits_{c\in C} c$. How should I represent an infinite sum of the same thing over and over? Is just $\sum c$ clear enough? Or...

$\sum\limits^\infty c$

$\sum\limits^\infty_{\_} c$

ps. A more appealing example is perhaps the big X from \varprod which isn't available here. One of the use cases is to represent a "stream" of Cartesian products that can be zipped to another, finite, one and discard the excess. Actually, the tuples will be zipped, but the result is the same anyway.

ps.2 - It is something to be written several times in an algebraic expression. Like a language to define a system, so the less verbose the better.

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For instance, you can write: $$ \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} c $$ (since $c$ does not depend on $k$, it is clear that you mean an infinite sum of the same element).