24 Bernoulli and Euler Polynomials Properties 24.13 Integrals 24.15 Related Sequences of Numbers

§24.14 Sums

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Keywords:: Bernoulli numbers, Bernoulli polynomials, Euler numbers, Euler polynomials, sums
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§24.14(i) Quadratic Recurrence Relations
§24.14(ii) Higher-Order Recurrence Relations
§24.14(iii) Compendia

§24.14(i) Quadratic Recurrence Relations

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Keywords:: Bernoulli numbers, Bernoulli polynomials, Euler numbers, Euler polynomials, quadratic, quadratic and higher order, recurrence relations
Notes:: For (24.14.1)–(24.14.6) see Nörlund (1922, pp. 135–142). For (24.14.7) see Carlitz (1961a, p. 992).
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24.14.1	$\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{n}{n\choose k}B_{k}\left(x\right)B_{n-k}\left(y\right)$	$\displaystyle=n(x+y-1)B_{n-1}\left(x+y\right)-(n-1)B_{n}\left(x+y\right),$
ⓘ Symbols: $B_{\NVar{n}}\left(\NVar{x}\right)$ : Bernoulli polynomials, $\genfrac{(}{)}{0.0pt}{}{\NVar{m}}{\NVar{n}}$ : binomial coefficient, $k$ : integer, $n$ : integer and $x$ : real or complex Referenced by: §24.14(i) Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E1 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(i), §24.14 and Ch.24
24.14.2	$\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{n}{n\choose k}B_{k}B_{n-k}$	$\displaystyle=(1-n)B_{n}-nB_{n-1}.$
ⓘ Symbols: $B_{\NVar{n}}$ : Bernoulli numbers, $\genfrac{(}{)}{0.0pt}{}{\NVar{m}}{\NVar{n}}$ : binomial coefficient, $k$ : integer and $n$ : integer Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E2 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(i), §24.14 and Ch.24
24.14.3	$\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{n}{n\choose k}E_{k}\left(h\right)E_{n-k}\left(x\right)$	$\displaystyle=2(E_{n+1}\left(x+h\right)-(x+h-1)E_{n}\left(x+h\right)),$
ⓘ Symbols: $E_{\NVar{n}}\left(\NVar{x}\right)$ : Euler polynomials, $\genfrac{(}{)}{0.0pt}{}{\NVar{m}}{\NVar{n}}$ : binomial coefficient, $k$ : integer, $n$ : integer and $x$ : real or complex Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E3 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(i), §24.14 and Ch.24
24.14.4	$\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{n}{n\choose k}E_{k}E_{n-k}$	$\displaystyle=-2^{n+1}E_{n+1}\left(0\right)=-2^{n+2}(1-2^{n+2})\frac{B_{n+2}}{% n+2}.$
ⓘ Symbols: $B_{\NVar{n}}$ : Bernoulli numbers, $E_{\NVar{n}}$ : Euler numbers, $E_{\NVar{n}}\left(\NVar{x}\right)$ : Euler polynomials, $\genfrac{(}{)}{0.0pt}{}{\NVar{m}}{\NVar{n}}$ : binomial coefficient, $k$ : integer and $n$ : integer Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E4 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(i), §24.14 and Ch.24
24.14.5	$\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{n}{n\choose k}E_{k}\left(h\right)B_{n-k}\left(x\right)$	$\displaystyle=2^{n}B_{n}\left(\tfrac{1}{2}(x+h)\right),$
ⓘ Symbols: $B_{\NVar{n}}\left(\NVar{x}\right)$ : Bernoulli polynomials, $E_{\NVar{n}}\left(\NVar{x}\right)$ : Euler polynomials, $\genfrac{(}{)}{0.0pt}{}{\NVar{m}}{\NVar{n}}$ : binomial coefficient, $k$ : integer, $n$ : integer and $x$ : real or complex Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E5 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(i), §24.14 and Ch.24
24.14.6	$\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{n}{n\choose k}2^{k}B_{k}E_{n-k}$	$\displaystyle=2(1-2^{n-1})B_{n}-nE_{n-1}.$
ⓘ Symbols: $B_{\NVar{n}}$ : Bernoulli numbers, $E_{\NVar{n}}$ : Euler numbers, $\genfrac{(}{)}{0.0pt}{}{\NVar{m}}{\NVar{n}}$ : binomial coefficient, $k$ : integer and $n$ : integer Referenced by: §24.14(i) Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E6 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(i), §24.14 and Ch.24

Let $m+n$ be even with $m$ and $n$ nonzero. Then

24.14.7		$\sum_{j=0}^{m}\sum_{k=0}^{n}\genfrac{(}{)}{0.0pt}{}{m}{j}\genfrac{(}{)}{0.0pt}% {}{n}{k}\frac{B_{j}B_{k}}{m+n-j-k+1}=(-1)^{m-1}\frac{m!n!}{(m+n)!}B_{m+n}.$
ⓘ Symbols: $B_{\NVar{n}}$ : Bernoulli numbers, $\genfrac{(}{)}{0.0pt}{}{\NVar{m}}{\NVar{n}}$ : binomial coefficient, $!$ : factorial (as in $n!$ ), $j$ : integer, $k$ : integer, $m$ : integer and $n$ : integer Referenced by: §24.14(i) Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E7 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(i), §24.14 and Ch.24

§24.14(ii) Higher-Order Recurrence Relations

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Keywords:: Bernoulli numbers, Euler numbers, Hankel, determinants, persymmetric, quadratic and higher order, recurrence relations
Notes:: For (24.14.8) and (24.14.10) see Dilcher (1996, p. 27). (24.14.9) is a special case of Dilcher (1996, p. 36). See also Sitaramachandrarao and Davis (1986) and Huang and Huang (1999).
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In the following two identities, valid for $n\geq 2$ , the sums are taken over all nonnegative integers $j,k,\ell$ with $j+k+\ell=n$ .

24.14.8	$\displaystyle\sum\frac{(2n)!}{(2j)!(2k)!(2\ell)!}B_{2j}B_{2k}B_{2\ell}$	$\displaystyle=(n-1)(2n-1)B_{2n}+n(n-\tfrac{1}{2})B_{2n-2},$
ⓘ Symbols: $B_{\NVar{n}}$ : Bernoulli numbers, $!$ : factorial (as in $n!$ ), $j$ : integer, $k$ : integer, $\ell$ : integer and $n$ : integer Referenced by: §24.14(ii) Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E8 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(ii), §24.14 and Ch.24
24.14.9	$\displaystyle\sum\frac{(2n)!}{(2j)!(2k)!(2\ell)!}E_{2j}E_{2k}E_{2\ell}$	$\displaystyle=\tfrac{1}{2}\left(E_{2n}-E_{2n+2}\right).$
ⓘ Symbols: $E_{\NVar{n}}$ : Euler numbers, $!$ : factorial (as in $n!$ ), $j$ : integer, $k$ : integer, $\ell$ : integer and $n$ : integer Referenced by: §24.14(ii) Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E9 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(ii), §24.14 and Ch.24

In the next identity, valid for $n\geq 4$ , the sum is taken over all positive integers $j,k,\ell,m$ with $j+k+\ell+m=n$ .

24.14.10		$\sum\frac{(2n)!}{(2j)!(2k)!(2\ell)!(2m)!}B_{2j}B_{2k}B_{2\ell}B_{2m}=-{2n+3% \choose 3}B_{2n}-\frac{4}{3}n^{2}(2n-1)B_{2n-2}.$
ⓘ Symbols: $B_{\NVar{n}}$ : Bernoulli numbers, $\genfrac{(}{)}{0.0pt}{}{\NVar{m}}{\NVar{n}}$ : binomial coefficient, $!$ : factorial (as in $n!$ ), $j$ : integer, $k$ : integer, $\ell$ : integer, $m$ : integer and $n$ : integer Referenced by: §24.14(ii) Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E10 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(ii), §24.14 and Ch.24

For (24.14.11) and (24.14.12), see Al-Salam and Carlitz (1959). These identities can be regarded as higher-order recurrences. Let $\det[a_{r+s}]$ denote a Hankel (or persymmetric) determinant, that is, an $(n+1)\times(n+1)$ determinant with element $a_{r+s}$ in row $r$ and column $s$ for $r,s=0,1,\dots,n$ . Then

24.14.11	$\displaystyle\det[B_{r+s}]$	$\displaystyle=(-1)^{n(n+1)/2}\left(\prod_{k=1}^{n}k!\right)^{6}\Bigg/\left(% \prod_{k=1}^{2n+1}k!\right),$
ⓘ Symbols: $B_{\NVar{n}}$ : Bernoulli numbers, $\det$ : determinant, $!$ : factorial (as in $n!$ ), $k$ : integer, $n$ : integer, $r$ : row and $s$ : column Referenced by: §24.14(ii) Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E11 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(ii), §24.14 and Ch.24
24.14.12	$\displaystyle\det[E_{r+s}]$	$\displaystyle=(-1)^{n(n+1)/2}\left(\prod_{k=1}^{n}k!\right)^{2}.$
ⓘ Symbols: $E_{\NVar{n}}$ : Euler numbers, $\det$ : determinant, $!$ : factorial (as in $n!$ ), $k$ : integer, $n$ : integer, $r$ : row and $s$ : column Referenced by: §24.14(ii) Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/24.14.E12 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §24.14(ii), §24.14 and Ch.24

§24.14(iii) Compendia

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For other sums involving Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials see Hansen (1975, pp. 331–347) and Prudnikov et al. (1990, pp. 383–386).

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§24.14 Sums

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§24.14(i) Quadratic Recurrence Relations

§24.14(ii) Higher-Order Recurrence Relations

§24.14(iii) Compendia