Advances in Difference Equations (Jan 2021)

Reciprocity of poly-Dedekind-type DC sums involving poly-Euler functions

  • Yuankui Ma,
  • Dae San Kim,
  • Hyunseok Lee,
  • Hanyoung Kim,
  • Taekyun Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-020-03194-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2021, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Abstract The classical Dedekind sums appear in the transformation behavior of the logarithm of the Dedekind eta-function under substitutions from the modular group. The Dedekind sums and their generalizations are defined in terms of Bernoulli functions and their generalizations, and are shown to satisfy some reciprocity relations. In contrast, Dedekind-type DC (Daehee and Changhee) sums and their generalizations are defined in terms of Euler functions and their generalizations. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the poly-Dedekind-type DC sums, which are obtained from the Dedekind-type DC sums by replacing the Euler function by poly-Euler functions of arbitrary indices, and to show that those sums satisfy, among other things, a reciprocity relation.

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