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ABSTRACT
Assume that 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
, 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
and the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini polynomials associated with
. 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 -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 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
, along with the probabilistic degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind associated with
and the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini polynomials associated with
. We derive some properties, explicit expressions, certain identities and recurrence relations for those polynomials and numbers. In addition, we consider the case that
is the Poisson random variable with parameters
. Here, we note the following. The central factorial numbers of the second kind appear in the expansion of powers of
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 together with the table (see ) of
, 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
together with the table (see ) of
, the degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind and the Bell polynomials. Assume that
is a random variable such that the moment generating function of
,
, exists for some
. Let
be a sequence of mutually independent copies of the random variable
, and let
, with
. Then, we recall the probabilistic degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind associated with
, and the probabilistic degenerate Bell polynomials associated with
. 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
be as in the above. We define the probabilistic degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind associated with
,
. In Theorem 1, we get an explicit expression for
. We define the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with
,
. As to
, 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
,
. We derive explicit expressions for
in Theorems 5 and 6. We deduce an expression for
in terms of the incomplete Bell polynomial in Theorem 7 and that for
in terms of the Bell polynomial in Theorem 8. A recurrence relation and the convolution formula for
are given, respectively, in Theorem 9 and Theorem 10. In Theorem 11, an expression for
is obtained in terms of the incomplete Bell polynomials. We get identities involving
and the incomplete Bell polynomials in Theorems 12 and 14. The higher-order derivatives of
are derived in Theorem 15. Finally, an explicit expression is obtained in Theorem 16 when
is the Poisson random variable with parameter
. In Section 3, we illustrate the degenerate central Bell polynomials
with their graphs. For this, we prove an explicit formula for those polynomials in terms of
and
in Theorem 17. By using Theorem 17 and , we compute
, for
. We plot the graphs of
,
, and
, for the values of
, (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.
Table 1. |s(n,k)|.
Table 2. T(n,k).
For , the Stirling numbers of the second kind are defined by
(see Comtet Citation1974; Roman Citation1984) where .
The Stirling numbers of the first kind are, as the inversion formula of (1), given by
(see Comtet Citation1974; Roman Citation1984) As is well known, the generating function of the Stirling numbers of the first kind is given by
The Stirling numbers of the first kind satisfy the following recurrence relation together with the initial conditions (see Roman Citation1984, p.61):
For later use in Section 3, we provide the table for , for
,(see ), which can be computed from the recurrence relation for
in (3).
Let be any nonzero real number. The degenerate falling factorial sequence (see Kim et al. Citation2019) is given by
In addition, the degenerate rising factorial sequence (see Kim et al. Citation2019) is defined by
The two degenerate factorial sequences are related to each other as in the following:
(see Kim and Kim Citation2022b). The degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind are defined by Kim–Kim as
(see Kim and Kim Citation2022b, Citation2022a, Citation2023b). Note that .
The degenerate exponentials are given by
(see Kim et al. Citation2019, Citation2019; Kim and Kim Citation2019, Citation2022b, Citation2022a, Citation2023b). The central factorials (see Kim et al. Citation2019; Kim and Kim Citation2019, Citation2020a, Citation2023) are defined by
The central factorial numbers of the second kind are defined by
(see Comtet Citation1974; Kim and Kim Citation2019, Citation2020a, Citation2023; Jang and Kim Citation2019) We recall the closed-form formulas for from (Butzer et al. Citation1989). For nonnegative integers
with
, we have
(see equation (7.6) of Proposition 7.4 in (Butzer et al. Citation1989), p.481),
(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 , for
, (see ), which can be computed from the closed-form formulas in EquationEquations (11)
(11)
(11) or (12).
Recently, Kim–Kim introduced the degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind which are defined by
(see Kim et al. Citation2019; Kim and Kim Citation2019, Citation2023). From EquationEquation (13)(13)
(13) , we have
Observe that, by taking in EquationEquation (14)
(14)
(14) , we have the generating function of the central factorial numbers
:
It is well known that the Bell polynomials are given by
(see Comtet Citation1974; Roman Citation1984; Abbas and Bouroubi Citation2005; Kim and Kim Citation2023a). Assume that is a random variable whose moment generating function exists in a neighbourhood of the origin, i.e.
Let be a sequence of mutually independent copies of the random variable
, and let
Then the probabilistic degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind associated with are given by
where , (see Kim and Kim Citation2023a; Kim et al. Citation2024).
In Kim and Kim (Citation2023a), the probabilistic degenerate Bell polynomials associated with are defined by
From EquationEquations (19)(19)
(19) and (20), we note that
and
where we note that
Let be a nonnegative integer. The incomplete Bell polynomials are defined by
(see Comtet Citation1974; Kim and Kim Citation2023a). From EquationEquation (24)(24)
(24) , we see that the incomplete Bell polynomials are explicitly given by
The complete Bell polynomials are given by
(see Comtet Citation1974; Kim and Kim Citation2023a). By EquationEquations (25)(25)
(25) and (26), we get
Note that
and
(see (24),(26)),
where are the degenerate Bell polynomials (see Kim et al. Citation2019; Kim and Kim Citation2022a) given by
In Kim and Kim (Citation2019), the degenerate central Bell polynomials are given by
Thus, by (14) and (30), we get
2. Probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials
Let be a random variable, and let
be a sequence of mutually independent copies of the random variable
with
We define the probabilistic degenerate central factorial numbers of the second kind associated with by
When ,
. Hereafter, ‘
’ means
is the discrete random variable that takes on the only value 1.
From EquationEquation (33)(33)
(33) , we have
Here the third line follows from the second by using the assumption that is a sequence of mutually independent copies of
and the fourth line from the third by utilizing EquationEquation (23)
(23)
(23) .
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of EquationEquation (34)(34)
(34) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 1.
For , we have
In view of EquationEquation (31)(31)
(31) , we define the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with
by
Especially, , are called the probabilistic degenerate central Bell numbers associated with
. When
,
. From EquationEquations (35)
(35)
(35) and (33), we note that
Therefore, by EquationEquation (36)(36)
(36) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 2.
The generating function of the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with is given by
From EquationEquation (37)(37)
(37) , we note that
Therefore, by EquationEquation (38)(38)
(38) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 3.
For , we have
In particular, for , we have
By EquationEquation (37)(37)
(37) , we get
Therefore, by EquationEquation (39)(39)
(39) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 4.
For , we have
Now, we define the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini polynomials associated by
In particular, are called the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini numbers associated with
.
From EquationEquation (40)(40)
(40) , we have
Thus, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of EquationEquation (41)(41)
(41) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 5.
For , we have
From EquationEquation (40)(40)
(40) , we note that
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of EquationEquation (42)(42)
(42) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 6.
For , we have
From EquationEquation (33)(33)
(33) , we note that
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of EquationEquation (43)(43)
(43) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 7
For , we have
Noting that (see EquationEquations (24)
(24)
(24) , (27)) and from (37), we get
Therefore, by EquationEquation (44)(44)
(44) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 8.
For , we have
We observe here that Theorem 8 follows also from Theorem 7 and EquationEquation (35)(35)
(35) .
Now, we observe that
Therefore, by EquationEquation (45)(45)
(45) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 9.
For , we have
From EquationEquation (37)(37)
(37) , we have
Therefore, by EquationEquation (46)(46)
(46) , we obtain the convolution formula.
Theorem 10
(Convolution). For , we have
By EquationEquation (37)(37)
(37) , we get
Therefore, by EquationEquation (47)(47)
(47) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 11.
For , we have
Noting that , we have
Thus, by (48), we get
Therefore, by comparing the coefficients on both sides of EquationEquation (49)(49)
(49) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 12.
For , we have
By combining the left hand side of Theorem 12 with EquationEquation (35)(35)
(35) , we get the following corollary.
Corollary 13.
Now, we observe that
Therefore, by EquationEquation (50)(50)
(50) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 14.
For , we have
From EquationEquation (37)(37)
(37) , we note that
where is a positive integer.
Therefore, by (51), we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 15.
For with
and
, we have
Let be the Poisson random variable with parameter
. Then, we have
and
Thus, we have
Now, by EquationEquation (53)(53)
(53) , we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 16.
Let be the Poisson random variable with parameter
. For
. We have
where is a nonnegative integer.
3. Illustrations of degenerate central Bell polynomials
Here, we illustrate the degenerate central Bell polynomials (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
and the central factorial numbers of the second kind
. For the convenience of reader, we provide a proof for that.
Theorem 17.
For , we have
Proof.
We only need to show that . By using (14), (8), (15) and (2) in this order, we have
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.
In , we plot the graphs of ,
, and
, for the values of
. As
tends to
, the graph of
approaches to that of
, the graph of
to that of
, and the graph of
to that of
. Here
are the central Bell polynomials and the expressions of
, and
can be obtained from those of
,
, and
in the above by taking
or using .
4. Conclusion
Let be a random variable such that the moment generating function of
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
, the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with
and the probabilistic degenerate central Fubini polynomials associated with
.
In more detail, we obtained for an explicit expression in Theorem 1 and a representation in terms of incomplete Bell polynomial in Theorem 7. As to
, 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
is the Poisson random variable with parameter
in Theorem 16. We deduced explicit expressions for
in Theorems 5 and 6. Finally, we obtained identities involving
and the incomplete Bell polynomials in Theorems 12 and 14.
As we mentioned in the Introduction, the probabilistic degenerate central Bell polynomials associated with have close connection with the central factorial numbers of the second kind
. Indeed, they are the coefficients of the polynomials obtained from (35) by taking
and letting
. 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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