A Characterization of Umbral Calculus Inspired by Fractional Sums (2103.09117v1)

Abstract: We will use analytic function theory and Fourier analysis to establish a characterization for some classical umbral calculus, which will focus on the generalization of the evaluation function. Although we cannot cover all the umbral calculus people care about, the part about Bernoulli numbers can still answer an open question about fractional sums raised by M\"uller and Schleicher in 2005 and synthesize some common analysis results. We will only develop the results which are sufficient to serve the purpose of this article, but at the same time, we will briefly mention some possible extensions.