Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 914367, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/914367

On the Symmetries of the q-Bernoulli Polynomials

Abstract

Kupershmidt and Tuenter have introduced reflection symmetries for the q-Bernoulli numbers and the Bernoulli polynomials in (2005), (2001), respectively. However, they have not dealt with congruence properties for these numbers entirely. Kupershmidt gave a quantization of the reflection symmetry for the classical Bernoulli polynomials. Tuenter derived a symmetry of power sum polynomials and the classical Bernoulli numbers. In this paper, we study the new symmetries of the q-Bernoulli numbers and polynomials, which are different from Kupershmidt's and Tuenter's results. By using our symmetries for the q-Bernoulli polynomials, we can obtain some interesting relationships between q-Bernoulli numbers and polynomials.