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Shifted sums of the Bernoulli numbers, reciprocity, and denominators
- Source :
- Rendiconti di Matematica e delle Sue Applicazioni, Vol 43, Iss 1-2, Pp 151-163 (2022)
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Sapienza Università Editrice, 2022.
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Abstract
- We consider the numbers Br,s = (B + 1)r Bs (in umbral notation Bn = Bn with the Bernoulli numbers) that have a well-known reciprocity relation, which is frequently found in the literature and goes back to the 19th century. In a recent paper, self-reciprocal Bernoulli polynomials, whose coefficients are related to these numbers, appeared in the context of power sums and the so-called Faulhaber polynomials. The numbers Br,s can be recursively expressed by iterated sums and differences, so it is not obvious that these numbers do not vanish in general. As a main result among other properties, we show the non-vanishing of these numbers, apart from exceptional cases. We further derive an explicit product formula for their denominators, which follows from a von Staudt–Clausen type relation.
Details
- Language :
- English, French, Italian
- ISSN :
- 11207183 and 25323350
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 1-2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Rendiconti di Matematica e delle Sue Applicazioni
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.70cb6448a5394c45bde145fa0d8d6e45
- Document Type :
- article