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In this note, we shall obtain two closed forms for the Apostol–Bernoulli polynomials.
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The authors are enormously grateful to the anonymous referee whose comments and suggestions lead to a large improvement of the paper. The first author is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11501212). The second author is supported by the Kyungnam University Foundation Grant, 2016.
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Hu, S., Kim, MS. Two closed forms for the Apostol–Bernoulli polynomials. Ramanujan J 46, 103–117 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-017-9907-4
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