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Kim and Kim (J. Math. Anal. Appl. 487:124017, 2020) introduced the degenerate logarithm function, which is the inverse of the degenerate exponential function, and defined the degenerate polylogarithm function. They also studied a new type of the degenerate Bernoulli polynomials and numbers by using the degenerate polylogarithm function. Motivated by their research, we subdivide this paper into two parts. In Sect. 2, we construct a new type of degenerate Genocchi polynomials and numbers by using the degenerate polylogarithm function, called the degenerate poly-Genocchi polynomials and numbers, deriving several combinatorial identities related to the degenerate poly-Genocchi numbers and polynomials. Then, in Sect. 3, we also consider the degenerate unipoly Genocchi polynomials attached to an arithmetic function by using the degenerate polylogarithm function. In particular, we provide some new explicit computational identities of degenerate unipoly polynomials related to special numbers and polynomials.
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1 Introduction
In recent years, many mathematicians have researched various special polynomials and numbers which included the Stirling numbers, central factorial numbers, Bernoulli numbers, Euler numbers, (central) Bell numbers, Cauchy numbers, and others [2–8]. Significantly, Carlitz [9, 10] initiated a study of degenerate versions of some special polynomials and numbers, namely the degenerate Bernoulli and Euler polynomials and numbers. Since then, many mathematicians have been studying degenerate versions of special polynomials and numbers such as Bernoulli, Euler, and Genocchi polynomials and numbers, and others [1, 11–26]. Notably, Genocchi numbers have been extensively studied in many different contexts such as: elementary number theory, complex analytic number theory, differential topology (differential structures on spheres), theory of modular forms (Eisenstein series), p-adic analytic number theory, and in quantum physics (quantum groups)[20–22, 27–29].
In 1997, Kaneko [2] introduced poly-Bernoulli numbers which are defined by the polylogarithm function. The polyexponential functions were first studied by Hardy [30] and reconsidered by Kim and Kim [1, 17] in view of an inverse to the polylogarithm functions which were studied by Jaonquière [31], Lewis [8], and Zagier [32]. Kim et al. [18] also studied a new type of the degenerate poly-Bernoulli polynomials by using the degenerate modified polyexponential functions.
Furthermore, Kim and Kim [15] introduced the degenerate logarithm function (the inverse of the degenerate exponential function) and studied a new type of the degenerate Bernoulli polynomials and numbers by using the degenerate polylogarithm function. Influenced by Kim et al.’s research, as well as the importance and potential for applications in number theory, combinatorics, and other fields of applied mathematics, we define a new type of the degenerate poly-Genocchi polynomials and the degenerate unipoly Genocchi polynomials, and provide several combinatorial identities related to these polynomials and numbers.
Now, as is well established in academia, the ordinary Bernoulli polynomials \(B_{n}(x)\) and the Genocchi polynomials \(G_{n}(x)\), \((n\in \mathbb{N}\cup \{0\})\) are respectively defined by their generating functions as follows (see[9, 13, 14, 20]):
When \(x=0\), \(B_{n}=B_{n}(0)\) and \(G_{n} =G_{n}(0)\) are respectively called the Bernoulli numbers and the Genocchi numbers.
We note that by (1)
The Euler polynomials are given by
When \(x=0\), \(E_{n} = E_{n}(0)\) are called the Euler numbers.
For any nonzero \(\lambda \in \mathbb{R}\) (or \(\mathbb{C}\)), the degenerate exponential function is defined by
By Taylor expansion, we get
where
Note that
In [9, 10], Carlitz introduced the degenerate Bernoulli polynomials and the degenerate Euler polynomials, respectively given by
When \(x=0\), \(B_{n,\lambda }=B_{n,\lambda }(0)\) are called the degenerate Bernoulli numbers, and \(E_{n,\lambda } = E_{n,\lambda }(0)\) are called the degenerate Euler numbers.
Note that \(\lim_{\lambda \rightarrow 0} B_{n,\lambda }(x) = B_{n}(x)\), \((n \geq 0)\) and \(\lim_{\lambda \rightarrow 0} E_{n,\lambda }(x) = E_{n}(x)\), \((n \geq 0)\).
In [20], Kim et al. considered the degenerate Genocchi polynomials given by
When \(x=0\), \(G_{n,\lambda } = G_{n,\lambda }(0)\) are called the degenerate Genocchi numbers.
As is well known, for \(s\in \mathbb{C}\), the polylogarithm function is defined by a power series in z, which is also a Dirichlet series in s
This definition is valid for arbitrary complex order s and for all complex arguments z with \(|z|<1\): it can be extended to \(|z|\ge 1\) by analytic continuation.
From (9), we note that
Recently, Kim and Kim [15] introduced the degenerate logarithm function \(\log _{\lambda }(1+t)\), which is the inverse of the degenerate exponential function \(e_{\lambda }(t)\) and the motivation for the definition of degenerate polylogarithm function as follows:
Here, \(\log _{\lambda }(t)=\frac{1}{\lambda }(t^{\lambda }-1)\) is the compositional inverse of \(e_{\lambda }(t)\) satisfying \(\log _{\lambda }(e_{\lambda }(t) = e_{\lambda }(\log _{\lambda }(t)) = t\). We note that
Thus, the degenerate polylogarithm function is defined by
We note that
In [15], they also studied a new type of degenerate poly-Bernoulli polynomials and numbers by using the degenerate polylogarithm function as follows:
When \(x=0\), \(\beta _{n,\lambda }^{(k)}=\beta _{n,\lambda }^{(k)}(0)\) are called the degenerate poly-Bernoulli numbers.
Moreover, they observed that
Kim [15] introduced the degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind as follows:
As an inversion formula of (18), the degenerate Stirling numbers of the first kind are defined by
From (18) and (19), it is well known that
and
This paper is subdivided into two parts. In Sect. 2, we construct a new type of degenerate Genocchi polynomials and numbers, called the degenerate poly-Genocchi polynomials and numbers, by using the degenerate polylogarithm function, deriving several combinatorial identities related to the degenerate poly-Genocchi numbers and polynomials. In Sect. 3, we also consider the degenerate unipoly Genocchi polynomials attached to an arithmetic function by using the degenerate polylogarithm function. In particular, we provide some new explicit computational identities of degenerate unipoly polynomials related to special numbers and polynomials.
2 A new type degenerate poly-Genocchi numbers and polynomials
In this section, we define the new type degenerate poly-Genocchi polynomials by using the degenerate polylogarithm function which are called the degenerate poly-Genocchi polynomials as follows:
When \(x=0\), \(g_{n,\lambda }^{(k)}=g_{n,\lambda }^{(k)}(0)\) are called the degenerate poly-Genocchi numbers.
When \(k=1\), from (15), we see that \(g_{n,\lambda }^{(1)}(x)=G_{n,\lambda }(x)\)\((n \geq 0)\) are the degenerate Genocchi polynomials because of
From (5), we observe that
Theorem 1
For \(n\geq 2\), \(k\in \mathbb{Z}\), we have
Proof
By using (25), we have
and
Thus, from (15), (26), and (27), we get the desired result as follows:
□
Theorem 2
For \(n\geq 0\)and \(k=2\), we have
Proof
By using (16), (17), and Theorem 1, we get
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of (30), we get what we wanted. □
Theorem 3
For \(n\geq 0\), \(k\in \mathbb{Z}\), we have
Proof
By using (8), Theorem 1, and Theorem 2, we have
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of (32), we get what we desired. □
The following lemma is easily obtained by (5) and (22).
Lemma 4
For \(n\geq 0\), \(k\in \mathbb{Z}\), we have
Theorem 5
For \(n\geq 0\), \(k\in \mathbb{Z}\), we have
Proof
By using Lemma 4, (5), and (22), we observe that
On the other hand, from (13) and (20), we have
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients of (35) and (36), we get what we wanted. □
Theorem 6
For \(n\geq 0\), \(k=1\), we have
Proof
From Theorem 5 and (23), we have
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of (38), we have the desired result. □
Theorem 7
For \(n\geq 0\), \(k \in \mathbb{Z}\), we have
Proof
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of (40), we have the desired result. □
Theorem 8
For \(n\geq 0\), \(k \in \mathbb{Z}\), we have
Proof
From (8), (13), and (36), we have
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of (42), we have the desired result. □
Theorem 9
For \(n\geq 1\), \(k \in \mathbb{Z}\), we have
Proof
From (5), (7), and (36), we get
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of (44), we have the desired result. □
Theorem 10
For \(n\geq 1 \)and \(k \in \mathbb{Z} \), we get
Proof
Replace t by \(-\frac{1}{2}\log _{\lambda }(1-t)\) in (22). From (7), (13), and (21), the left-hand side of (22) is
On the other hand, the right-hand side of (22) is
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients of (46) and (47), we get what we wanted. □
3 The degenerate unipoly Genocchi polynomials and numbers
Let p be any arithmetic function which is real- or complex-valued function defined on the set of positive integers \(\mathbb{N}\). Kim and Kim [5] defined the unipoly function attached to \(p(x)\) by
Moreover,
is the ordinary polylogarithm function.
In this paper, we define the degenerate unipoly function attached to \(p(x)\) as follows:
We note that
is the degenerate polylogarithm function.
We also define the degenerate unipoly Genocchi polynomials by
When \(x=0\), \(g_{n,\lambda ,p}^{(k)}= g_{n,\lambda ,p}^{(k)} (0)\) is the degenerate unipoly Genocchi numbers.
We note that
The next lemma is intended to be used conveniently to prove some of the theorems below.
Lemma 11
For \(k \in \mathbb{Z}\), we have
Proof
Thus, we have what we wanted. □
Theorem 12
For \(n\geq 1\), \(k \in \mathbb{Z}\), we get
Proof
From (7) and Lemma 11, we have
Thus, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of (57), we have the desired result. □
Theorem 13
For \(n\geq 0\), \(k \in \mathbb{Z}\), we get
Proof
From (8) and Lemma 11, we have
Thus, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of (59), we have the desired result. □
Theorem 14
For \(k \in \mathbb{Z}\), we have
if \(n\geq 1\)and \(g_{0,\lambda ,p}^{(k)}(x)=0\).
Proof
From (5), (7), and Lemma 11, we get
Thus, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of (60), we obtain the desired theorem. □
4 Conclusion
In this paper, we constructed a new type degenerate Genocchi polynomials and numbers by using the degenerate polylogarithm function, called degenerate poly-Genocchi polynomials and numbers. We represented the following: the generating function of the degenerate poly-Genocchi numbers by iterated integrals in Theorem 1; the explicit degenerate poly-Genocchi numbers in terms of the degenerate Bernoulli polynomials and the degenerate Genocchi numbers in Theorem 3. Not to mention, we obtained in Theorems 5 and 7 that the degenerated poly-Genocchi polynomials are represented by the degenerated poly-Genocchi numbers and the degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind. We also demonstrated in Theorem 10 that the degenerate poly-Genocchi polynomials are represented by the degenerated poly-Genocchi numbers and the degenerate Stirling numbers of the first kind. We expressed those polynomials in terms of the degenerate Genocchi polynomials and the degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind in Theorem 8 and the degenerate poly-Bernoulli polynomials in Theorem 9.
On the other hand, in Sect. 3, we defined the degenerate unipoly Genocchi polynomials by using the degenerate polylogarithm function and obtained: the identity degenerate unipoly Genocchi polynomials in terms of the degenerate Euler numbers and the degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind in Theorem 12; the degenerate Genocchi numbers and the degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind in Theorem 13; the degenerate Bernoulli polynomials and the degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind in Theorem 14.
The field of degenerate versions is widely applied not only to number theory and combinatorics but also to symmetric identities, differential equations, and probability theory. As one of our future projects, we would like to continue to study degenerate versions of certain special polynomials and numbers and their applications to physics, economics, and engineering as well as mathematics.
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Lee, D.S., Kim, H.K. On the new type of degenerate poly-Genocchi numbers and polynomials. Adv Differ Equ 2020, 431 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-020-02886-5
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