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Relations for Bernoulli--Barnes Numbers and Barnes Zeta Functions

Number Theory 2016-05-10 v2

Abstract

The \emph{Barnes ζ\zeta-function} is ζn(z,x;\a):=\mZ0n1(x+m1a1++mnan)z \zeta_n (z, x; \a) := \sum_{\m \in \Z_{\ge 0}^n} \frac{1}{\left(x + m_1 a_1 + \dots + m_n a_n \right)^z} defined for (x)>0\Re(x) > 0 and (z)>n\Re(z) > n and continued meromorphically to \C\C. Specialized at negative integers k-k, the Barnes ζ\zeta-function gives ζn(k,x;\a)=(1)nk!(k+n)!Bk+n(x;\a) \zeta_n (-k, x; \a) = \frac{(-1)^n k!}{(k+n)!} \, B_{k+n} (x; \a) where Bk(x;\a)B_k(x; \a) is a \emph{Bernoulli--Barnes polynomial}, which can be also defined through a generating function that has a slightly more general form than that for Bernoulli polynomials. Specializing Bk(0;\a)B_k(0; \a) gives the \emph{Bernoulli--Barnes numbers}. We exhibit relations among Barnes ζ\zeta-functions, Bernoulli--Barnes numbers and polynomials, which generalize various identities of Agoh, Apostol, Dilcher, and Euler.

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@article{arxiv.1301.7097,
  title  = {Relations for Bernoulli--Barnes Numbers and Barnes Zeta Functions},
  author = {Abdelmejid Bayad and Matthias Beck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.7097},
  year   = {2016}
}

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