Bernoulli Polynomials - Another Explicit Formula

Another Explicit Formula

An explicit formula for the Bernoulli polynomials is given by

B_m(x)= \sum_{n=0}^m \frac{1}{n+1} \sum_{k=0}^n (-1)^k {n \choose k} (x+k)^m.

Note the remarkable similarity to the globally convergent series expression for the Hurwitz zeta function. Indeed, one has

where ζ(s, q) is the Hurwitz zeta; thus, in a certain sense, the Hurwitz zeta generalizes the Bernoulli polynomials to non-integer values of n.

The inner sum may be understood to be the nth forward difference of xm; that is,

where Δ is the forward difference operator. Thus, one may write

This formula may be derived from an identity appearing above as follows. Since the forward difference operator Δ equals

where D is differentiation with respect to x, we have, from the Mercator series

As long as this operates on an mth-degree polynomial such as xm, one may let n go from 0 only up to m.

An integral representation for the Bernoulli polynomials is given by the Nörlund–Rice integral, which follows from the expression as a finite difference.

An explicit formula for the Euler polynomials is given by

E_m(x)= \sum_{n=0}^m \frac{1}{2^n} \sum_{k=0}^n (-1)^k {n \choose k} (x+k)^m\,.

This may also be written in terms of the Euler numbers Ek as

E_m(x)= \sum_{k=0}^m {m \choose k} \frac{E_k}{2^k} \left(x-\frac{1}{2}\right)^{m-k} \,.

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