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Probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials

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Pages 523-542 | Received 21 Feb 2024, Accepted 17 May 2024, Published online: 01 Jul 2024

ABSTRACT

Assume that Y is a random variable whose moment generating function exists in a neighbourhood of the origin. In this paper, we study the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with Y, as probabilistic extension of the degenerate central Bell polynomials. In addition, we investigate the probabilistic degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind associated with Y and the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini polynomials associated with Y. The aim of this paper is to derive some properties, explicit expressions, certain identities and recurrence relations for those polynomials and numbers.

1. Introduction

It is Carlitz (see Carlitz Citation1979) who initiated a study of degenerate versions of special polynomials and numbers, namely the degenerate Bernoulli and degenerate Euler polynomials and numbers. In recent years, a lot of work (see Kim et al. Citation2019, Citation2019; Kim and Kim Citation2019, Citation2022b, Citation2022a, Citation2023b; Aydin et al. Citation2022 and the references therein) has been done regarding various degenerate versions of many special polynomials and numbers. Here, we consider the probabilistic extension of the degenerate central Bell polynomials, which are a degenerate version of the central Bell polynomials. It is fascinating that degenerate gamma fuctions, degenerate umbral calculus and degenerate q-umbral calculus have also been developed (see Kim and Kim Citation2020b, Citation2021; Kim et al. Citation2022) during the course of investigations for degenerate versions of some special polynomials and numbers.

Special functions have various importance in a good many areas of engineering, physics, mathematics and other disciplines such as quantum mechanics, mathematical physics, functional analysis, numerical analysis, differential equations and so on. The family of special polynomials possesses also intensive fields of study in the family of special functions. Recently, some probabilistic special polynomials (with their corresponding numbers), including probabilistic Bell, probabilistic Fubini and probabilistic Stirling polynomials (and numbers), are among the most studied families of special polynomials. One of the first papers in this direction was published by Adell and Lekuona (see Adell and Lekuona Citation2019; Adell Citation2022). They defined a probabilistic generalization of the Stirling numbers of the second kind and gave some of their properties. We note here that Xu et al. (Citation2024), Withers (Citation2000), Kurt and Simsek (Citation2013), Kim et al. (Citation2019, Citation2024), Askan et al. (Citation2020) and Kim and Kim (Citation2023a) treat special numbers and polynomials in a probabilistic manner.

Assume that Y is a random variable satisfying the moment condition (see Kim et. al Citation2024). The aim of this paper is to study, as a probabilistic extension of degenerate central Bell polynomials, the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with Y, along with the probabilistic degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind associated with Y and the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini polynomials associated with Y. We derive some properties, explicit expressions, certain identities and recurrence relations for those polynomials and numbers. In addition, we consider the case that Y is the Poisson random variable with parameters α>0. Here, we note the following. The central factorial numbers of the second kind appear in the expansion of powers of x in term of central factorials (see Kim and Kim Citation2020a, Citation2021, Citation2023). The degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind are degenerate versions of the central factorial numbers of the second kind (see Adell and Lekuona Citation2019). The degenerate central Bell polynomials (see Kim and Kim Citation2019, Citation2020a) are natural polynomial extensions of the degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind.

The outline of this paper is as follows. In Section 1, we recall the Stirling numbers of the second kind, the Stirling numbers of the first kind s(n,k) together with the table (see ) of |s(n,k)|,(0kn8), the degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind and the degenerate exponentials. We remind the reader of the central factorials, the central factorial numbers of the second kind T(n,k) together with the table (see ) of T(n,k),(0kn8), the degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind and the Bell polynomials. Assume that Y is a random variable such that the moment generating function of Y, E[etY]=n=0tnn!E[Yn],(|t|<r), exists for some r>0. Let (Yj)j1 be a sequence of mutually independent copies of the random variable Y, and let Sk=Y1+Y2++Yk,(k1), with S0=0. Then, we recall the probabilistic degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind associated with Y, and the probabilistic degenerate Bell polynomials associated with Y. We remind the reader of the incomplete Bell polynomials, the complete Bell polynomials, the degenerate Bell polynomials and the degenerate central Bell polynomials. Section 2 contains the main results of this paper. Let (Yj)j1,Sk,(k=0,1,) be as in the above. We define the probabilistic degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind associated with Y, TλY(n,k). In Theorem 1, we get an explicit expression for TλY(n,k). We define the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with Y, Cn,λY(x). As to Cn,λY(x), the generating function is found in Theorem 2, and explicit expressions of them are obtained in Theorems 3 and 4. We introduce the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini polynomials associated with Y, Wn,λY(x). We derive explicit expressions for Wn,λY(x) in Theorems 5 and 6. We deduce an expression for TλY(n,k) in terms of the incomplete Bell polynomial in Theorem 7 and that for Cn,λY(x) in terms of the Bell polynomial in Theorem 8. A recurrence relation and the convolution formula for Cn,λY(x) are given, respectively, in Theorem 9 and Theorem 10. In Theorem 11, an expression for Cn,λY(x) is obtained in terms of the incomplete Bell polynomials. We get identities involving TλY(n,k),Cn,λY(x) and the incomplete Bell polynomials in Theorems 12 and 14. The higher-order derivatives of Cn,λY(x) are derived in Theorem 15. Finally, an explicit expression is obtained in Theorem 16 when Y is the Poisson random variable with parameter α>0. In Section 3, we illustrate the degenerate central Bell polynomials Cn,λ(x) with their graphs. For this, we prove an explicit formula for those polynomials in terms of s(n,k) and T(n,k) in Theorem 17. By using Theorem 17 and , we compute Cn,λ(x), for 1n8. We plot the graphs of C2,λ(x), C5,λ(x), and C8,λ(x), for the values of λ=1,0.6,0.2, (see ). We then conclude the paper in Section 4. As general references on probability and polynomials, the reader may refer to Abramowitz and Stegun (Citation1964), Roman (Citation1984), Leon-Garcia (Citation1994) and Ross (Citation2019). For the rest of this section, we recall the facts that are needed throughout this paper.

Figure 1. The shapes of Cn,λ(x).

Figure 1. The shapes of Cn,λ(x).

Table 1. |s(n,k)|.

Table 2. T(n,k).

For nN{0}, the Stirling numbers of the second kind are defined by

(1) xn=k=0nSn,k(x)k,(1)

(see Comtet Citation1974; Roman Citation1984) where (x)0=1,(x)n=x(x1)(x(n1)), (n1).

The Stirling numbers of the first kind are, as the inversion formula of (1), given by

xn=k=0nsn,kxk

(see Comtet Citation1974; Roman Citation1984) As is well known, the generating function of the Stirling numbers of the first kind is given by

(2) 1k!(log(1+t))k=n=ks(n,k)tnn!.(2)

The Stirling numbers of the first kind satisfy the following recurrence relation together with the initial conditions (see Roman Citation1984, p.61):

(3) s(n+1,k)=s(n,k1)ns(n,k),s(0,0)=1,s(n,0)=0,(n1).(3)

For later use in Section 3, we provide the table for |s(n,k)|, for 0kn8,(see ), which can be computed from the recurrence relation for s(n,k) in (3).

Let λ be any nonzero real number. The degenerate falling factorial sequence (see Kim et al. Citation2019) is given by

(4) (x)0,λ=1,(x)n,λ=x(xλ)(x2λ)(x(n1)λ),(n1).(4)

In addition, the degenerate rising factorial sequence (see Kim et al. Citation2019) is defined by

(5) x0,λ=1,xn,λ=x(x+λ)(x+2λ)(x+(n1)λ),(n1).(5)

The two degenerate factorial sequences are related to each other as in the following:

(6) xn,λ=(1)n(x) n,λ,x n,λ=(1)nxn,λ,(6)

(see Kim and Kim Citation2022b). The degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind are defined by Kim–Kim as

(7) xn,λ=k=0nSλn,k(x)k,n0,(7)

(see Kim and Kim Citation2022b, Citation2022a, Citation2023b). Note that limλ0Sλ(n,k)=S(n,k), (nk0).

The degenerate exponentials are given by

(8) eλxt=(1+λt)xλ=n=0xn,λtnn!,eλt=eλ1t,(8)

(see Kim et al. Citation2019, Citation2019; Kim and Kim Citation2019, Citation2022b, Citation2022a, Citation2023b). The central factorials x[n] (see Kim et al. Citation2019; Kim and Kim Citation2019, Citation2020a, Citation2023) are defined by

(9) x[0]=1,x[n]=x(x+n21)(x+n22)(x+n2n+1),(n1).(9)

The central factorial numbers of the second kind are defined by

(10) xn=k=0nTn,kxk,n0,(10)

(see Comtet Citation1974; Kim and Kim Citation2019, Citation2020a, Citation2023; Jang and Kim Citation2019) We recall the closed-form formulas for T(n,k) from (Butzer et al. Citation1989). For nonnegative integers n,k with nk, we have

(11) T(n,k)=(1)kj=kn(1)jnjk2njS(j,k),(11)

(see equation (7.6) of Proposition 7.4 in (Butzer et al. Citation1989), p.481),

(12) =1k!j=0k(1)jkjk2jn(12)

(see the equation (xii) of Proposition 2.4 in (Butzer et al. Citation1989), p.429).

For later use in Section 3, we provide the table for T(n,k), for 0kn8, (see ), which can be computed from the closed-form formulas in EquationEquations (11)or (12).

Recently, Kim–Kim introduced the degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind which are defined by

(13) xn,λ=k=0nTλn,kxk,n0,(13)

(see Kim et al. Citation2019; Kim and Kim Citation2019, Citation2023). From EquationEquation (13), we have

(14) 1k!(eλ12(t)eλ12(t))k=n=kTλ(n,k)tnn!,(k0).(14)

Observe that, by taking λ0 in EquationEquation (14), we have the generating function of the central factorial numbers T(n,k):

(15) 1k!(et2et2)k=n=kT(n,k)tnn!.(15)

It is well known that the Bell polynomials are given by

(16) exet1=n=0\phiinxtnn!,(16)

(see Comtet Citation1974; Roman Citation1984; Abbas and Bouroubi Citation2005; Kim and Kim Citation2023a). Assume that Y is a random variable whose moment generating function exists in a neighbourhood of the origin, i.e.

(17) E[etY]=n=0E[Yn]n!tn,(|t|<r),existsforsomer>0.(17)

Let (Yj)j1 be a sequence of mutually independent copies of the random variable Y, and let

(18) S0=0,Sk=Y1+Y2++Yk,(k1).(18)

Then the probabilistic degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind associated with Y are given by

(19) SY,λ(n,k)=1k!j=0kkj(1)kjE[(Sj)n,λ],(19)

where nk0, (see Kim and Kim Citation2023a; Kim et al. Citation2024).

In Kim and Kim (Citation2023a), the probabilistic degenerate Bell polynomials associated with Y are defined by

(20) \phiin,λY(x)=k=0nSY,λ(n,k)xk,(n0).(20)

From EquationEquations (19) and (20), we note that

(21) 1k!(E[eλY(t)]1)k=n=kSY,λ(n,k)tnn!,(k0),(21)

and

(22) ex(E[eλY(t)]1)=n=0\phiin,λY(x)tnn!,(see[16]),(22)

where we note that

(23) E[eλY(t)]=n=0E[(Y)n,λ]tnn!.(23)

Let k be a nonnegative integer. The incomplete Bell polynomials are defined by

(24) 1k!m=1xmtmm!k=n=kBn,kx1,x2,,xnk+1tnn!,(24)

(see Comtet Citation1974; Kim and Kim Citation2023a). From EquationEquation (24), we see that the incomplete Bell polynomials are explicitly given by

(25) Bn,k(x1,x2,,xnk+1)=l1+l2++lnk+1=k      l1+2l2++(nk+1)lnk+1=nn!l1!l2!lnk+1!(x11!)l1(x22!)l2(xnk+1(nk+1)!)lnk+1.(25)

The complete Bell polynomials are given by

(26) ei=1xitii!=n=0Bnx1,x2,,xntnn!,(26)

(see Comtet Citation1974; Kim and Kim Citation2023a). By EquationEquations (25) and (26), we get

(27) Bn(x1,x2,,xn)=k=0nBn,k(x1,x2,,xnk+1).(27)

Note that

(28) Bn,k((1)1,λ,(1)2,λ,(1)3,λ,,(1)nk+1,λ)=Sλ(n,k),(nk0),(28)

and

(29) Bn(x(1)1,λ,x(1)2,λ,,x(1)n,λ)=\phiin,λ(x),(n0),(29)

(see (24),(26)),

where \phiin,λ(x) are the degenerate Bell polynomials (see Kim et al. Citation2019; Kim and Kim Citation2022a) given by

k=0nSλ(n,k)xk.

In Kim and Kim (Citation2019), the degenerate central Bell polynomials are given by

(30) ex(eλ12(t)eλ12(t))=n=0Cn,λ(x)tnn!.(30)

Thus, by (14) and (30), we get

(31) Cn,λ(x)=k=0nTλ(n,k)xk,(n0).(31)

2. Probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials

Let Y be a random variable, and let (Yj)j1 be a sequence of mutually independent copies of the random variable Y with

(32) S0=0,Sk=Y1+Y2++Yk,(k1).(32)

We define the probabilistic degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind associated with Y by

(33) 1k!(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])k=n=kTλY(n,k)tnn!,(k0).(33)

When Y=1, Tλ1(n,k)=Tλ(n,k),(nk0). Hereafter, ‘Y=1’ means Y is the discrete random variable that takes on the only value 1.

From EquationEquation (33), we have

(34)     n=kTλY(n,k)tnn!=1k!(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])k  =1k!j=0k(k j )(1)kj(E[eλY2(t)])j(E[eλY2(t)])kj  =1k!j=0k(k j )(1)kjE[eλSj2(t)]E[eλSkj2(t)]  =1k!j=0k(kj)(1)kjn=0l=0n(nl)E(Sj2)l,λ(1)nlE[Skj2nl,λ]tnn!  =n=01k!j=0kl=0n(n l)(k j )(1)nkljE(Sj2)l,λE[Skj2nl,λ]tnn!.(34)

Here the third line follows from the second by using the assumption that (Yj)j1 is a sequence of mutually independent copies of Y and the fourth line from the third by utilizing EquationEquation (23).

Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of EquationEquation (34), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 1.

For nk0, we have

TλY(n,k)=1k!j=0kl=0n(n l )(k j )(1)nkljE(Sj2)l,λE[Skj2nl,λ].

In view of EquationEquation (31), we define the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with Y by

(35) Cn,λY(x)=k=0nTλY(n,k)xk,(n0).(35)

Especially, Cn,λY=Cn,λY(1),(n0), are called the probabilistic degenerate central Bell numbers associated with Y. When Y=1, Cn,λ1(x)=Cn,λ(x). From EquationEquations (35) and (33), we note that

(36) n=0Cn,λY(x)tnn!=n=0k=0nTλY(n,k)xktnn!=k=0n=kTλY(n,k)tnn!xk                 =n=0xkk!(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])k                 =ex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)]).(36)

Therefore, by EquationEquation (36), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 2.

The generating function of the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with Y is given by

(37) ex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])=n=0Cn,λY(x)tnn!.(37)

From EquationEquation (37), we note that

(38) n=0Cn,λY(x)tnn!=ex(E[eλY2(t)])ex(E[eλY2(t)])                 =l=0xll!E[eλSl2(t)]j=0(1)jxjj!E[eλSj2(t)]             =l=0xll!m=0ESl 2m,λtmm!j=0(1)jj!xjp=0E(Sj2)p,λtpp!                  =n=0l=0j=0m=0n(nm )(1)nmjxl+jl!j!ESl2m,λE[Sj2nm,λ]tnn!.(38)

Therefore, by EquationEquation (38), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 3.

For n0, we have

Cn,λY(x)=l=0j=0m=0n(n m)(1)nmj(l+j l)xl+j(l+j)!E(Sl2)m,λE[Sj2nm,λ].

In particular, for Y=1, we have

Cn,λ(x)=l=0j=0l+jl(1)jxl+j(l+j)!l2j2n,λ.

By EquationEquation (37), we get

(39) n=0Cn,λY(x)tnn!=ex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])=ex(E[eλY2(t)1])ex(E[eλY2(t)1])=m=0\pHim,λY2(x)tmm!l=0ϕl,λY2(x)tll!=n=0m=0nnmϕm,λY2(x)ϕnm,λY2(x)tnn!.(39)

Therefore, by EquationEquation (39), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 4.

For n0, we have

Cn,λY(x)=m=0nnmϕm,λY2(x)ϕnm,λY2(x).

Now, we define the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini polynomials associated Y by

(40) n=0Wn,λY(x)tnn!=11x(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)]).(40)

In particular, Wn,λY=Wn,λY(1) are called the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini numbers associated with Y.

From EquationEquation (40), we have

(41) n=0Wn,λY(x)tnn!=k=0xkk!k!(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])k=k=0xkk!n=kTλY(n,k)tnn!=n=0k=0nxkk!TλY(n,k)tnn!.(41)

Thus, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of EquationEquation (41), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 5.

For n0, we have

Wn,λY(x)=k=0nk!TλY(n,k)xk.

From EquationEquation (40), we note that

(42) n=0Wn,λY(x)tnn!=k=0xkj=0kkj(E[eλY2(t)]1)kj(1)j(E[eλY2(t)]1)j=k=0xkk!j=0k(1)j1(kj)!(E[eλY2(t)]1)kj1j!(E[eλY2(t)]1)j=k=0xkk!j=0kn=k(1)ji=kjnjSY2,λ(i,kj)SY2,λ(ni,j)nitnn!=n=0k=0nj=0kn=kjnj(1)jnixkk!SY2,λ(i,kj)SY2,λ(ni,j)tnn!.(42)

Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of EquationEquation (42), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 6.

For n0, we have

Wn,λY(x)=k=0nj=0kn=kjnj(1)jnik!SY2,λ(i,kj)SY2,λ(ni,j)xk.

From EquationEquation (33), we note that

(43) n=kTλY(n,k)tnn!=1k!(j=1(E(Y2)j,λE(Y2)j,λ)tjj!)k=1k!(j=1(12)jE[(Y)j,2λ]E[(Y)j,2λ])tjj!)k=1k!(j=1(12)j(E[(Y)j,2λ(Y)j,2λ])tjj!)k=n=kBn,k(E[(Y)1,2λ(Y)1,2λ]2,E[(Y)2,2λ(Y)2,2λ]22,,E[(Y)nk+1,2λ(Y)nk+1,2λ]2nk+1)tnn!=n=k(12)nBn,kE[(Y)1,2λ(Y)1,2λ],E[(Y)2,2λ(Y)2,2λ],,E[(Y)nk+1,2λ(Y)nk+1,2λ])tnn!.(43)

Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of EquationEquation (43), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 7

For nk0, we have

2nTλY(n,k)=Bn,k(E[(Y)1,2λ(Y)1,2λ],E[(Y)2,2λ(Y)2,2λ],,E[(Y)nk+1,2λ(Y)nk+1,2λ]).

Noting that Bn(xx1,xx2,,xxn)=k=0nBn,k(x1,x2,,xnk+1)xk (see EquationEquations (24), (27)) and from (37), we get

(44) n=0Cn,λY(x)tnn!=k=01k!xj=112jE[(Y)j,2λ]E[(Y)j,2λtjj!k=k=0n=k12nBn,kxE[(Y)1,2λ(Y)1,2λ],xE[(Y)2,2λ(Y)2,2λ],K,xE[(Y)nk+1,2λ(Y)nk+1,2λ]tnn!=n=012nBnxE[(Y)1,2λ(Y)1,2λ],xE[(Y)2,2λ(Y)2,2λ],K,xE[(Y)n,2λ(Y)n,2λ]tnn!.(44)

Therefore, by EquationEquation (44), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 8.

For n0, we have

2nCn,λY(x)=Bn(xE[(Y)1,2λ(Y)1,2λ],xE[(Y)2,2λ(Y)2,2λ],,xE[(Y)n,2λ(Y)n,2λ]).

We observe here that Theorem 8 follows also from Theorem 7 and EquationEquation (35).

Now, we observe that

(45) n=0Cn+1,λY(x)tnn!=ddtn=0Cn,λY(x)tnn!=ddtex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])=x(E[Y2eλY2λ(t)]+[Y2eλY2λ(t)])ex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])     =xl=0∞E[Y2(Y2λ)l,λ]+EY2(Y2λ)l,λtll!m=0Cm,λY(x)tmm!  =xl=0∞E(Y2)l+1,λE(Y2)l+1,λtll!m=0Cm,λY(x)tmm!      =n=0xl=0nE(Y2)l+1,λEY(45)

Therefore, by EquationEquation (45), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 9.

For n0, we have

Cn+1,λY(x)=xl=0n(nl)E(Y2)l+1,λE(Y2)l+1,λCnl,λY(x).

From EquationEquation (37), we have

(46) n=0Cn,λY(x+y)tnn!=e(x+y)(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])                      =ex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])ey(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])                      =k=0Ck,λY(x)tkk!m=0Cm,λY(y)tmm!                      =n=0k=0nnkCk,λY(x)Cnk,λY(y)tnn!.(46)

Therefore, by EquationEquation (46), we obtain the convolution formula.

Theorem 10

(Convolution). For n0, we have

Cn,λY(x+y)=k=0nnkCk,λY(x)Cnk,λY(y).

By EquationEquation (37), we get

(47) n=0Cn,λY(x)tnn!=k=0xkeE[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)]1k=k=0(x)k1k!i=1Ci,λYtii!k=k=0(x)kn=kBn,kC1,λY,C2,λY,,Cnk+1,λYtnn!=n=0k=0n(x)kBn,kC1,λY,C2,λY,,Cnk+1,λYtnn!.(47)

Therefore, by EquationEquation (47), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 11.

For n0, we have

Cn,λY(x)=k=0nBn,k(C1,λY,C2,λY,,Cnk+1,λY)(x)k.

Noting that tex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])=j=1jCj1,λY(x)tjj!, we have

(48) (j=1jCj1,λY(x)tjj!)k=tk(ex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)]))k                      =tkj=0kjxj1j!(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])j                      =n=0j=0nkjxjTλY(n,j)tn+kn!                      =n=kk!j=0nkkjxjTλY(nk,j)nktnn!.(48)

Thus, by (48), we get

(49) n=kj=0nkkjxjTλY(nk,j)nktnn!=1k!j=1jCj1,λY(x)tjj!k=n=kBn,kC0,λY(x),2C1,λY(x),3C2,λY(x),,(nk+1)Cnk,λY(x)tnn!.(49)

Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of EquationEquation (49), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 12.

For nk0, we have

nkj=0nkkjTλY(nk,j)xj=Bn,k(C0,λY(x),2C1,λY(x),3C2,λY(x),,(nk+1)Cnk,λY(x)).

By combining the left hand side of Theorem 12 with EquationEquation (35), we get the following corollary.

Corollary 13.

nkCnk,λY(kx)=Bn,k(C0,λY(x),2C1,λY(x),3C2,λY(x),,(nk+1)Cnk,λY(x)).

Now, we observe that

(50) n=kBn,kC1,λY(x),C2,λY(x),,Cnk+1,λY(x)tnn!=1k!j=1Cj,λY(x)tjj!k=1k!ex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])1k=j=kS2(j,k)xj1j!E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)]j=j=kS2(j,k)xjn=jTλY(n,j)tnn!=n=kj=knS2(j,k)xjTλY(n,j)tnn!.(50)

Therefore, by EquationEquation (50), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 14.

For nk0, we have

Bn,k(C1,λY(x),C2,λY(x),,Cnk+1,λY(x))=j=knS2(j,k)TλY(n,j)xj.

From EquationEquation (37), we note that

(51) n=0(ddx)kCn,λY(x)tnn!=ddxkex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])=k!1k!E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)]kex(E[eλY2(t)]E[eλY2(t)])=k!l=kTλY(l.k)tll!j=0Cj,λY(x)tjj!=n=kk!l=knnlTλY(l,k)Cnl,λY(x)tnn!,(51)

where k is a positive integer.

Therefore, by (51), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 15.

For n,kZ with n0 and k1, we have

ddxkCn,λY(x)=k!l=knnlTλY(l,k)Cnl,λY(x).

Let Y be the Poisson random variable with parameter α>0. Then, we have

(52) EeλY2(t)=n=0αnn!eαeλn2(t)=eα(eλ12(t)1)=eα(e2λ(t2)1),(52)

and

EeλY2(t)=n=0αnn!eαeλn2(t)=eα(eλ12(t)1)=eα(e2λ(t2)1).

Thus, we have

(53) n=0Cn,λY(x)tnn!=ex(eα(e2λ(t2)1)1)ex(eα(e2λ(t2)1)1)                      =j=0ϕj(x)αjj!e2λt21jk=0ϕk(x)αk1k!e2λ(t2)1k                      =j=0ϕj(x)αji=jS2λ(i,j)(t2)ii!k=0ϕk(x)αkl=kS2λ(l,k)(t2)ll!                      =i=0j=0iαjϕj(x)S2λ(i,j)(t2)ii!l=0k=0lϕk(x)αkS2k(l,k)(t2)ll!                      =n=0l=0nk=0lj=0nlϕj(x)S2λ(nl,j)12n(1)lϕk(x)αj+kS2λ(l,k)nltnn!.(53)

Now, by EquationEquation (53), we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 16.

Let Y be the Poisson random variable with parameter α>0. For n0. We have

Cn,λY(x)=12nl=0nk=0lj=0nl(1)lαj+knlϕj(x)S2λ(nl,j)ϕk(x)S2λ(l,k),

where n is a nonnegative integer.

3. Illustrations of degenerate central Bell polynomials

Here, we illustrate the degenerate central Bell polynomials Cn,λ(x)= k=0nTλ(n,k)xk (see 31) with their graphs. For this, we first recall from [7, Theorem 2.2] the explicit expression for those polynomials in terms of the Stirling numbers of the first kind s(n,k) and the central factorial numbers of the second kind T(n,k). For the convenience of reader, we provide a proof for that.

Theorem 17.

For n0, we have

Cn,λ(x)=m=0nk=mns(n,k)T(k,m)λnkxm                    =m=0nk=mn(1)nk|s(n,k)|T(k,m)λnkxm.

Proof.

We only need to show that Tλ(n,m)=k=mns(n,k)T(k,m)λnk. By using (14), (8), (15) and (2) in this order, we have

n=mTλ(n,m)tnn!=1m!(eλ12(t)eλ12(t))m
=1m!((1+λt)12λ(1+λt)12λ)m
=1m!(e12λlog(1+λt)e12λlog(1+λt))m
=k=mT(k,m)λk1k!(log(1+λt))k
=k=mT(k,m)λkn=ks(n,k)λntnn!

which gives what we wanted.□

We compute the first few degenerate central Bell polynomials by using Theorem 17 and and plot some graphs of the degenerate central Bell polynomials.

C1,λ(x)=x,
C2,λ(x)=x(xλ),
C3,λ(x)=x14+x23+2λ2,
C4,λ(x)=x46x3λ+x2(1+11λ2)32x(λ+4λ3),
C5,λ(x)=x(116+52x2+x410x(1+x2)λ+354(1+4x2)λ250xλ3+24λ4),
C6,λ(x)=x615x5λ+x4(5+85λ2)752x3(λ+6λ3)+x2(1+85λ2+274λ4)
1516x(λ+60λ3+128λ5),
C7,λ(x)=164x(1+364x2+560x4+64x61344x(1+5x2+x4)λ+700(1+40x2+16x4)λ2
              47040x(1+x2)λ3+25984(1+4x2)λ4112896xλ5+46080λ6),
C8,λ(x)=116x(16(x+21x3+14x5+x7)7(1+364x2+560x4+64x6)λ
+5152x(1+5x2+x4)λ21960(1+40x2+16x4)λ3+108304x(1+x2)λ4
52528(1+4x2)λ5+209088xλ680640λ7).

In , we plot the graphs of C2,λ(x), C5,λ(x), and C8,λ(x), for the values of λ=1,0.6,0.2. As λ tends to 0, the graph of C2,λ(x) approaches to that of C2(x)=x2, the graph of C5,λ(x) to that of C5(x)=116x+52x3+x5, and the graph of C8,λ(x) to that of C8(x)=x2+21x4+14x6+x8. Here Cn(x)=k=0nT(n,k)xk are the central Bell polynomials and the expressions of C2(x),C5(x), and C8(x) can be obtained from those of C2,λ(x), C5,λ(x), and C8,λ(x) in the above by taking λ=0 or using .

4. Conclusion

Let Y be a random variable such that the moment generating function of Y exists in a neighbourhood of the origin. In this paper, we studied by using generating functions probabilistic extensions of several special polynomials and numbers, namely the probabilistic degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind associated with Y, the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with Y and the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini polynomials associated with Y.

In more detail, we obtained for TλY(n,k) an explicit expression in Theorem 1 and a representation in terms of incomplete Bell polynomial in Theorem 7. As to Cn,λY(x), we found the generating function in Theorem 2, a recurrence relation in Theorem 9, the convolution in Theorem 10 and higher-order derivatives in Theorem 15. In addition, we derived explicit expressions in Theorems 3 and 4, representations in terms of the complete Bell polynomial in Theorem 8 and of the incomplete Bell polynomials in Theorem 11, and an explicit expression in the special case that Y is the Poisson random variable with parameter α>0 in Theorem 16. We deduced explicit expressions for Wn,λY(x) in Theorems 5 and 6. Finally, we obtained identities involving TλY(n,k),Cn,λY(x) and the incomplete Bell polynomials in Theorems 12 and 14.

As we mentioned in the Introduction, the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with Y have close connection with the central factorial numbers of the second kind T(n,k). Indeed, they are the coefficients of the polynomials obtained from (35) by taking Y=1 and letting λ0. The central factorial numbers are at least as important as the Stirling numbers, have many applications and have close relations with many other special numbers (see Butzer et al. Citation1989). Indeed, it has applications to spline theory (see Butzer et al. Citation1989; Lee and Osman Citation1995) and approximation theory (see Butzer et al. Citation1989; Abel Citation2004). Further, they have connections with other well-known numbers like Bernoulli numbers, Euler numbers and Stirling numbers of both kinds, etc. (see Butzer et al. Citation1989) and Riemann zeta function (see Butzer and Hauss Citation1992; Kim and Kim Citation2024). As one of our future projects, we would like to continue to study probabilistic extensions of many special polynomials and numbers and to find their applications to physics, science and engineering as well as to mathematics.

Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (2022JQ–072). The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their detailed comments and suggestions that helped improve the original manuscript.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

The work was supported by the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province [2022JQ-072].

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