A recurrence formula for the Bernoulli numbers
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A recurrence formula for the Bernoulli numbers
zbMATH Open document ID: 0854.11012
author: Masanobu Kaneko
published in: Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series A
publication date: 1996-07-07T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(B_n\) be the \(n\)-th Bernoulli number defined by the formal power series \[ {x\over {e^x -1}}= \sum^\infty_{n=0} B_n {x^n \over n!} \] and put \(\widetilde {B}_n:= (n+ 1)B_n\). In this note under review the author gives two proofs of the formula \[ \widetilde {B}_{2n}= -{1\over {n+1}} \sum^{n-1}_{i=0} {{n+1} \choose i} \widetilde {B}_{n+i}, \] one which uses convergents of continued fraction expansions of \(f(x)= (\sqrt {x}/ 2) \coth (\sqrt {x}/ 2)\) with a lot of recurrence relations, and a very short and elegant one (which is due to D. Zagier) defining a suitable convolution on the set of sequences.
reviewed by: Helmut Müller
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11B68
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11B37
zbMATH DE Number: 897687
zbMATH Keywords: Bernoulli number
zbMATH Keywords: convergents of continued fraction expansions
zbMATH Keywords: recurrence relations
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: pjaa.71.192
OpenAlex ID: W2113448261
cites work: Q3999066
DOI: 10.3792/PJAA.71.192
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 897687