scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1553619

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In the note under review the author studies the rational numbers \[ B_n^*=\sum_{r=0}^n {{n+r}\choose{2r}}\frac{B_r}{n+r}, \] where \(B_n\) are the classical famous Bernoulli numbers. He shows that these modified Bernoulli numbers have some very interesting properties similar to the classical ones, namely a) The value of \(B_n^*\) for odd \(n\) is periodic mod \(12\); b) The fractional part of \(2nB_n^*-B_n\) for \(n\) even is given by \(\displaystyle\sum_{(p+1)|n\atop p\;\text{ prime}}\frac 1p\) ; c) \(B_n^*\approx (-1)^{n/2}\pi Y_n(4\pi)\), \(n\to\infty\), \(n\) even, where \(Y_n(x)\) denotes the \(n\)th Bessel function of the second kind. The proofs are really fun, as the author points out, and are examples of his virtuos handling of generating functions.











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