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The modified degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials arising from p-adic invariant integral on \(\mathbb{Z}_{p}\)
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2017, Article number: 29 (2017)
Abstract
Dolgy et al. introduced the modified degenerate Bernoulli polynomials, which are different from Carlitz’s degenerate Bernoulli polynomials (see Dolgy et al. in Adv. Stud. Contemp. Math. (Kyungshang) 26(1):1-9, 2016). In this paper, we study some explicit identities and properties for the modified degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials arising from the p-adic invariant integral on \(\mathbb{Z}_{p}\).
1 Introduction
For a fixed prime number p, \({\mathbb{Z}}_{p}\) refers to the ring of p-adic integers, \({\mathbb{Q}}_{p}\) to the field of p-adic rational numbers, and \({\mathbb{C}}_{p}\) to the completion of algebraic closure of \({\mathbb{Q}}_{p}\). The p-adic norm \(\vert \cdot \vert _{p}\) is normalized as \(\vert p\vert _{p}=\frac{1}{p}\). Let q be in \({\mathbb{C}}_{p}\) with \(\vert q-1\vert _{p}< p^{-\frac{1}{p-1}}\) and \(q^{x} = \exp(x \log q) \) for \(\vert x\vert _{p} < 1\). Then the q-analogue of x is defined to be \([x]_{q}=\frac{1-q^{x}}{1-q}\).
The Bernoulli polynomials are given by the generating function
When \(x=0\), \(B_{n}=B_{n}(0)\) are called Bernoulli numbers.
Carlitz [4, 5, 8] defined the degenerate Bernoulli polynomials as follows:
When \(x=0\), \(\beta_{n}(0\vert \lambda)=\beta_{n}(\lambda)\) are called Carlitz’s degenerate Bernoulli numbers.
From (1.2) we note that
Using the derivation given in (1.3), we have
Let \(f(x)\) be a uniformly differentiable function on \({\mathbb{Z}} _{p}\). Then the p-adic invariant integral on \({\mathbb{Z}}_{p}\) (also called the Volkenborn integral on \({\mathbb{Z}}_{p}\)) is defined by
By using the formula defined in (1.1) we note that
and
where \(f_{n}(x)=f(x+n)\) (\(n \in\mathbb{N}\)); see [1, 9, 10, 15, 17].
Thus, by (1.6) we get
The modified degenerate Bernoulli polynomials are recently revisited by Dolgy et al., and they are formulated with the p-adic invariant integral on \(\mathbb{Z}_{p}\) to be
where \(\lambda\in{\mathbb{C}}_{p}\) with \(\vert \lambda \vert _{p}< p^{- \frac{1}{p-1}}\).
When \(x=0\), we call \(\beta_{n,\lambda}(0) = \beta_{n,\lambda} \) the modified degenerate Bernoulli numbers.
Recently, Kim introduced p-adic q-integral on \(\mathbb{Z}_{p}\) is defined by
The degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials are also defined by Kim as follows.
The generating functions of Stirling numbers are given by
and
where \(S_{1}(l,n)\) are the Stirling numbers of the first kind, and \(S_{2}(l,n)\) are the Stirling numbers of the second kind.
The following diagram illustrates the variations of several types of q-Bernoulli polynomials and numbers. The definitions of the q-Bernoulli polynomials and the degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials applied in the given diagram are provided by Carlitz [4, 5, 8] and Kim [20], respectively. In this paper, we investigate some of the explicit identities to characterize the modified degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials used in the diagram

A few studies have identified some of the properties of the degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials and numbers. This paper defines the modified q-Bernoulli polynomials and numbers arising from the p-adic invariant integral on \(\mathbb{Z}_{p}\) and introduces additional characteristic properties of these polynomials and numbers, which are defined from the generating functions and p-adic invariant integral on \(\mathbb{Z}_{p}\).
2 The modified degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials and numbers
In the following discussions, we assume that \(\lambda,t\in{\mathbb{C}} _{p}\) with \(0 < \vert \lambda \vert \leq1\) and \(\vert t\vert _{p} < p^{-\frac{1}{p-1}}\). Then, as \(\vert \lambda t\vert _{p} < p^{-\frac{1}{p-1}}\), \(\vert \log(1+ \lambda t)\vert _{p} = \vert \lambda t\vert _{p} \), and hence \(\vert \frac{1}{\lambda}\log(1+\lambda t)\vert _{p} = \vert t\vert _{p} < p^{-\frac{1}{p-1}}\), it makes sense to take the limit as \(\lambda\rightarrow0\).
Following (1.3), we define the modified degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials given by the generating function
When \(x=0\), \(\widetilde{B}_{n,q,\lambda}(0) = \widetilde{B}_{n,q, \lambda} \) are called the modified degenerate q-Bernoulli numbers.
Note that
where \(B_{n,q}(x)\) are the modified Carlitz q-Bernoulli polynomials.
Now, we consider
By the definitions provided in (2.1), (2.2), and (2.3) we are able to derive the following theorem.
Theorem 2.1
For \(n\geq0\), \(\widetilde{B}_{n,q,\lambda}(x)\) can be written as
Note that \((x)_{n} = \sum_{l=0} ^{n} S_{1} (n, l) x^{l} \) (\(n \geq0\)), where \(S_{1}\) are the Stirling numbers of the first kind.
Then, by using (2.1) we are able to state
Given the descriptions in (2.1) and (2.5), we have another theorem.
Theorem 2.2
For \(n\geq0\), \(\widetilde{B}_{n,q,\lambda}(x)\) can be written as
We observe that
The third theorem is obtained by (2.1) and (2.7) as follows.
Theorem 2.3
For \(n\geq0\), \(\widetilde{B}_{n,q,\lambda}(x)\) can be written as
Remark 2.4
Note that
where \(d \in\mathbb{N} \).
The following theorem is obtained from (2.10).
Theorem 2.5
For \(n\geq0 \) and \(d \in\mathbb{N}\), \(\widetilde{B}_{n,q,\lambda}(x)\) can be written as
Now, we observe that
We obtain Theorem 2.1 as follows by substituting t by \(\log(1+ \lambda)^{\frac{t}{\lambda}}\) in (2.12):
For \(r \in{\mathbb{N}}\), we define the modified degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials of order r as follows:
When \(x=0\), \(\widetilde{B}_{n,q,\lambda}^{(r)}(0) = \widetilde{B} _{n,q,\lambda}^{(r)} \) are called the modified degenerate q-Bernoulli numbers of order r.
We observe that
Therefore, we are able to derive the following theorem.
Theorem 2.6
For \(n\geq0\), \(\widetilde{B}_{n,q,\lambda}^{(r)}(x)\) can be written as
Now, we consider
Now, (2.17) yields the following theorem.
Theorem 2.7
For \(n\geq0\), \(\widetilde{B}_{n,q,\lambda}^{(r)}(x)\) can be written as
Now, we observe that, for \(d \in\mathbb{N} \),
Finally, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of (2.19) we get the following theorem.
Theorem 2.8
For \(n\geq0\) and \(d \in\mathbb{N}\), \(\widetilde{B}_{n,q}^{(r)}(x)\) can be written as
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Lee, J.G., Kwon, J. The modified degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials arising from p-adic invariant integral on \(\mathbb{Z}_{p}\) . Adv Differ Equ 2017, 29 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-017-1084-7
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- 11B68
- 11S40
- 11S80
Keywords
- degenerate Bernoulli polynomials
- modified degenerate q-Bernoulli polynomials