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New formulae of products of the Frobenius-Euler polynomials
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2014, Article number: 261 (2014)
Abstract
In this paper, we perform a further investigation for the Frobenius-Euler polynomials. Some new formulae of products of the Frobenius-Euler polynomials are established by applying the generating function methods and some summation transform techniques. It turns out that some corresponding known results are obtained as special cases.
MSC:11B68, 05A19.
1 Introduction
Let λ be a complex number with . Frobenius [1] studied in great detail the so-called Frobenius-Euler polynomials satisfying the following exponential generating function:
In particular, are called the Frobenius-Euler numbers. In fact, the Frobenius-Euler polynomials can also be defined recursively by the Frobenius-Euler numbers, as follows:
where the Frobenius-Euler numbers obey the recurrence relation
with the usual convention about replacing by . For some interesting arithmetic properties of the Frobenius-Euler polynomials and numbers, one is referred to [2–13].
Some analogues of the Frobenius-Euler polynomials are the classical Bernoulli polynomials and Euler polynomials . They are usually defined by the following exponential generating functions:
Especially, the rational numbers and integers are called the classical Bernoulli numbers and Euler numbers, respectively. These numbers and polynomials play important roles in many different areas of mathematics including number theory, combinatorics, special functions and analysis. Numerous interesting properties for them can be found in many books; see, for example, [14–17]. Obviously the Frobenius-Euler polynomials give the classical Euler polynomials when in (1.1).
In [15], Nielsen investigated three formulae of products of the classical Bernoulli and Euler polynomials. In particular, Nielsen showed that for positive integers m, n,
which was reobtained by Carlitz [18] applying a different method. For further discoveries of Nielsen’s formulae on the classical Bernoulli and Euler polynomials, see [19–23] for details. In [24], Carlitz explored some formulae of products of the Frobenius-Euler polynomials and obtained that for non-negative integers m, n,
when , , , and if , then for positive integer m and non-negative integer n,
and if , then for positive integers m, n,
Further, Carlitz [24] showed that the case in (1.7) and (1.8) can be used to give the expression of and stated in [15], respectively.
Motivated by the work of Carlitz [24], in the present paper we establish some new formulae of products of the Frobenius-Euler polynomials by applying the generating function methods and some summation transform techniques. It turns out that some known results including (1.6), (1.7) and (1.8) are obtained as special cases.
2 Restatement of the main results
In this section, we shall establish three new formulae of products of the Frobenius-Euler polynomials to extend formulae (1.6), (1.7) and (1.8) by making use of the generating function methods. As further applications, we also give some new sum relations of products of the Frobenius-Euler polynomials by applying some summation transform techniques, which are analogous to some sum relations of products of the classical Euler polynomials and Frobenius-Euler polynomials stated in [9, 25]. For convenience, in the following we shall denote by the harmonic number of order n given by
We now state our main results as follows.
Theorem 2.1 Let m, n be non-negative integers. Then, for , , ,
Proof Observe that
If we multiply on both sides of (2.3), then
Note that from (1.1) we have
More generally, the Taylor theorem gives
By applying (2.5) and (2.6) to (2.4), we obtain
It follows from (2.7) and the Cauchy product that
Comparing the coefficients of in (2.8) gives
Substituting λ for and μ for in (2.9), we get
Since the Frobenius-Euler polynomials obey the difference equation (see, e.g., [9])
so by applying (2.11) to (2.10), the desired result follows immediately. □
It follows that we show some special cases of Theorem 2.1. By setting in Theorem 2.1, we rediscover formula (1.6). Setting and in Theorem 2.1, for non-negative integers m, n and , we have
Clearly, (see, e.g., [9]). Hence, by setting in (2.12), we obtain that for non-negative integer n,
Setting and in Theorem 2.1, we get that for non-negative integers m, n and ,
In particular, the case in (2.14) gives that for non-negative integer n,
which was discovered by Kim [9] applying a nice method called the Frobenius-Euler basis for consisting of the Frobenius-Euler polynomials with being the space of polynomials of degree less than or equal to n.
Theorem 2.2 Let m, n be non-negative integers. Then, for ,
Proof By setting and substituting λ for μ in (2.3), we have
Multiplying on both sides of (2.17) leads to
Hence, by applying (1.4), (2.5) and (2.6) to (2.18), we obtain
which together with the Cauchy product yields
Since (see, e.g., [26]), so by substituting λ for and comparing the coefficients of in (2.20) we get
Thus, by applying the difference equation of the classical Bernoulli polynomials for non-negative integer n (see, e.g., [26]) to (2.21), the desired result follows immediately. □
It is obvious that the case in Theorem 2.2 gives formula (1.7).
Theorem 2.3 Let m, n be non-negative integers. Then, for ,
Proof By substituting for μ in (2.4), we discover
Notice that from (1.4) and the Taylor theorem we have
On the other hand, if we apply to (2.5), then we get
Since the Frobenius-Euler polynomials satisfy the symmetric distribution for non-negative integer n (see, e.g., [4]), so by (2.5) we can rewrite (2.25) as
Hence, applying (2.5), (2.24) and (2.26) to (2.23) and then comparing the coefficients of gives
which together with (2.11) yields the desired result. □
It becomes obvious that setting and then substituting m for n and n for m in Theorem 2.3 gives formula (1.8).
Theorem 2.4 Let n be a non-negative integer. Then, for , , ,
Proof It is easy to see that (2.2) can be rewritten as
Hence, by substituting l for m and for n with and then making the summation operation in (2.29), we have
If we change the order of summations on the right-hand side of (2.30), then we obtain
Notice that for non-negative integers m, n (see, e.g., [[27], Lemma 3.1]),
Thus, the desired result follows by applying (2.32) to (2.31). □
We next discuss some special cases of Theorem 2.4. By setting in Theorem 2.4, we obtain that for a non-negative integer n,
Taking in (2.33) we have
which is equivalent to
It is interesting to point out that formula (2.35) is analogous to the following sum relation on the classical Bernoulli polynomials:
which was obtained by Kim et al. [25] using a nice method called the Bernoulli basis for consisting of the Bernoulli polynomials with being the space of polynomials of degree less than or equal to n. For an equivalent version of (2.35), see [[9], Theorem 3] for details.
Theorem 2.5 Let be a positive integer. Then, for , , ,
Proof Let m, n be positive integers. Then, by multiplying on both sides of (2.29) and then substituting l for m and for n with , in light of making the summation operation , we get
Observe that for positive integers m, n,
Hence, by applying (2.39) to (2.38), we obtain
Changing the order of summations on the right-hand side of (2.40), we obtain
Note that for non-negative integers m, n (see, e.g., [[27], Lemma 3.1]),
and
By combining (2.42) and (2.43), we have
Thus, the desired result follows by applying (2.44) to (2.41). □
Obviously the case and in Theorem 2.5 gives that for positive integer and ,
which is analogous to the sum relation on the classical Euler polynomials stated in [[25], Theorem 7]. From the above, one can also use Theorems 2.2 and 2.3 to establish some similar sum relations to Theorems 2.4 and 2.5. We leave the details to the interested readers for an exercise.
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This work is supported by the Foundation for Fostering Talents in Kunming University of Science and Technology (Grant No. KKSY201307047) and the National Natural Science Foundation of P.R. China (Grant No. 11326050, 11071194).
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He, Y., Wang, S.J. New formulae of products of the Frobenius-Euler polynomials. J Inequal Appl 2014, 261 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2014-261
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