Nombres de q-Bernoulli–Carlitz et fractions continues
Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Tome 29 (2017) no. 2, pp. 347-368.

Carlitz a introduit vers 1950 des q-analogues des nombres de Bernoulli. On obtient une représentation de ces q-analogues (ainsi que de variantes décalées) comme moments de certains polynômes orthogonaux. Ceci donne aussi des factorisations des déterminants de Hankel des nombres de q-Bernoulli, ainsi que des fractions continues pour leurs séries génératrices. Certains de ces résultats sont des q-analogues d’énoncés connus pour les nombres de Bernoulli, mais d’autres sont sans version classique.

Carlitz introduced q-analogues of the Bernoulli numbers around 1950. We obtain a representation of these q-Bernoulli numbers (and some shifted version) as moments of some orthogonal polynomials. This also gives factorisations of Hankel determinants of q-Bernoulli numbers, and continued fractions for their generating series. Some of these results are q-analogues of known results for Bernoulli numbers, but some are specific to the q-Bernoulli setting.

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DOI : 10.5802/jtnb.984
Classification : 11B68, 30B70
Mots clés : Nombre de Bernoulli, q-analogue, déterminant de Hankel, polynômes orthogonaux, fraction continue
Frédéric Chapoton 1 ; Jiang Zeng 2

1 Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancé CNRS UMR 7501, Université de Strasbourg 7 rue René Descartes F-67084 Strasbourg, France
2 Institut Camille Jordan, CNRS UMR 5208 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 F-69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France
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Frédéric Chapoton; Jiang Zeng. Nombres de $q$-Bernoulli–Carlitz et fractions continues. Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Tome 29 (2017) no. 2, pp. 347-368. doi : 10.5802/jtnb.984. https://jtnb.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/jtnb.984/

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