A Note on Polyexponential and Unipoly Functions

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce polyexponential functions as an inverse to the polylogarithm functions, construct type 2 poly-Bernoulli polynomials by using this and derive various properties of type 2 poly-Bernoulli numbers. Then we introduce unipoly functions attached to each suitable arithmetic function as a universal concept which includes the polylogarithm and polyexponential functions as special cases. By making use of unipoly functions, we define unipoly-Bernoulli polynomials, type 2 unipoly-Bernoulli numbers, and unipoly-Bernoulli numbers of the second kind, and show some basic properties for them.