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Some identities for the product of two Bernoulli and Euler polynomials
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2012, Article number: 95 (2012)
Abstract
Let ℙ n be the space of polynomials of degree less than or equal to n. In this article, using the Bernoulli basis {B0(x), . . . , B n (x)} for ℙ n consisting of Bernoulli polynomials, we investigate some new and interesting identities and formulae for the product of two Bernoulli and Euler polynomials like Carlitz did.
1 Introduction
The Bernoulli and Euler polynomials are defined by means of
In the special case, x = 0, B n (0) = B n and E n (0) = E n are called the n-th Bernoulli and Euler numbers (see [1–17]).
From (1), we note that
For n ≥ 0, we have
By (1), we get the following recurrence for the Bernoulli and the Euler numbers:
where δk, nis the Kronecker symbol (see [1–17]).
Thus, from (3) and (4), we have
It is known [12] that
where a1, a2, . . . , a n are positive integers that are relatively prime in pairs A = a1a2 . . . a n .
For n = 2, there is the formula
where p + q ≥ 2 (see [3, 4]). In [3, 4], we can find the following formula for a product of two Bernoulli polynomials:
Assume m, n, p ≥ 1. Then, by (7) and (8), we get
(see [4]).
In [8], it is known that for n ∈ ℤ+,
and
Let ℙ n = {∑ i a i xi|a i ∈ ℚ} be the space of polynomials of degree less than or equal to n. In this article, using the Bernoulli basis {B0(x), . . . , B n (x)} for ℙ n consisting of Bernoulli polynomials, we investigate some new and interesting identities and formulae for the product of two Bernoulli and Euler polynomials like Carlitz did.
2 Bernoulli identities arising from Bernoulli basis polynomials
From (1), we note that
Thus, from (12), we have
From (13), we note that {B0(x), B1(x), . . . , B n (x)} spans ℙ n . For p(x) ∈ ℙ n , let and g(x) = p(x + 1) - p(x). Then we have
From (14), we can derive the following Equation (15):
where and r = 0, 1, 2, . . . , n. Let us take x = 0 in (15). Then we have
By (16), we get, for r = 1, 2, . . . , n,
Let . Then, from (17), we have
From (18), we note that {B0(x), B1(x), . . . , B n (x)} is a linearly independent set. Therefore, we obtain the following theorem.
Proposition 1 The set of Bernoulli polynomials {B0(x), B1(x), . . . , B n (x)} is a basis for ℙ n .
Let us consider polynomial p(x) ∈ ℙ n as a linear combination of Bernoulli basis polynomials with
We can write (19) as a dot product of two variables:
From (20), we can derive the following equation:
where b ij are the coefficients of the power basis that are used to determine the respective Bernoulli polynomials. It is easy to show that
In the quadratic case (n = 2), the matrix representation is
In the cubic case (n = 3), the matrix representation is
In many applications of Bernoulli polynomials, a matrix formulation for the Bernoulli polynomials seems to be useful.
There are many ways of obtaining polynomial identities in general. Here, in Theorems 2-9, we use the Bernoulli basis in order to express certain polynomials as linear combinations of that basis and hence to get some new and interesting polynomial identities.
Let . Then, by integration by parts, we get
For n ∈ ℤ+ with n ≥ 2, let us consider the following polynomials in ℙ n :
Then, from (25), we have
where r = 0, 1, 2, . . . n.
By Proposition 1, we see that p(x) can be written as
From (25) and (27), we note that
By (18) and (26), we get
Therefore, by (25), (27) and (28), we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 2 For n ∈ ℤ+ with n ≥ 2, we have
For n ∈ ℤ+ with n ≥ 2, let us take polynomial p(x) in ℙ n as follows:
From Proposition 1, we note that p(x) is given by means of Bernoulli basis polynomials:
By (24), (29) and (30), we get
From (29), we have that for r = 0, 1, 2, . . . , n,
By (18), we get
Therefore, from (29), (30) and (33), we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 3 For n ∈ ℤ+ with n ≥ 2, we have
Let n ∈ ℤ+ with n ≥ 2. Then we consider polynomial p(x) in ℙ n with
By Proposition 1, we see that p(x) is written as
From (34), we have
It is easy to show that for r = 1, 2 , . . . , n - 1,
where
By (17), we get
From the definition of C r , we have
where
Therefore, by (34), (36) and (37), we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 4 For n ∈ ℤ+ with n ≥ 2, we have
Let , for m, n ∈ ℤ+. Then we see that
Let us take polynomials p(x) in ℙ n with . Then, by Proposition 1, p(x) is written as .
It is not difficult to show that
and
By (17) and (39), we get
where k = 0, 1, 2, . . . , n. Therefore, by (40), we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 5 For n ∈ ℤ+, we have
Let us take the polynomial p(x) in ℙ n as follows:
Then, by (41), we get
where r = 0, 1, 2, . . . , n.
By Proposition 1, we see that p(x) can be written as
From (41), (42) and (43), we have
and
where r = 1, 2, . . . , n.
Therefore, by (41), (43) and (45), we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 6 For n ∈ ℤ+, we have
Let us take
in ℙ n . Then, by Proposition 1, p(x) is given by means of basis polynomials:
It is easy to show that
and
where .
By the same method, we get
From the construction of C k , we note that
Therefore, by the same method, we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 7 For n ∈ ℤ+ with n ≥ 2, we have
Let
From (47), we have that
For m, n ∈ ℕ, we have
Let us consider the following polynomial in ℙ n :
For n ∈ ℕ with n ≥ 2, by Proposition 1, p(x) is given by
From (49) and (50), we note that
For k = 0, 1, 2, . . . , n, we have
By (17), we get
Therefore, by (49), (50) and (53), we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 8 For n ∈ ℤ+ with n ≥ 2, we have
For n ∈ ℕ with n ≥ 2, let us take in ℙ n . Then we have
From Proposition 1, we note that p(x) can be written as
Thus, by (55), we get
From (17), we note that
Therefore, by (54), (55) and (57), we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 9 For n ∈ ℕ with n ≥ 2, we have
For n ∈ ℕ with n ≥ 2, let us consider the polynomial in ℙ n .
From Proposition 1, we note that p(x) can be written as . Then the k-th derivative of p(x) is given by
where k = 1, 2, . . . , n - 1 and
In addition,
From (17), we note that
It is easy to show that
Therefore, from (59) and (60), we have
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Kim, D.S., Kim, T., Lee, SH. et al. Some identities for the product of two Bernoulli and Euler polynomials. Adv Differ Equ 2012, 95 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1847-2012-95
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Keywords
- Differential Equation
- Positive Integer
- Linear Combination
- Partial Differential Equation
- Ordinary Differential Equation