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Binomial transform and the backward difference

Number Theory 2017-02-03 v3

Abstract

We prove an important property of the binomial transform: it converts multiplication by the discrete variable into a certain difference operator. We also consider the case of dividing by the discrete variable. The properties presented here are used to compute various binomial transform formulas involving harmonic numbers, skew-harmonic numbers, Fibonacci numbers, and Stirling numbers of the second kind. Several new identities are proved and some known results are given new short proofs.

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@article{arxiv.1410.3014,
  title  = {Binomial transform and the backward difference},
  author = {Khristo N. Boyadzhiev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.3014},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

The paper is a slight modification of the journal article in Advances and Applications in Discrete Mathematics, 13 (1) (2014), 43-63

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