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{{short description|Integers occurring in the coefficients of the Taylor series of 1/cosh t}}
{{confused|Eulerian number|Euler's number}}
{{other uses|List of things named after Leonhard Euler#Numbers}}
In [[mathematics]], the '''Euler numbers''' are a [[sequence]] ''En'' of [[integer]]s {{OEIS|A122045}} defined by the [[Taylor series]] expansion
:<math>\frac{1}{\cosh t} = \frac{2}{e^{t} + e^ {-t} } = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{E_n}{n!} \cdot t^n,</math>
where <math>\cosh (t)</math> is the [[Hyperbolic function|hyperbolic cosine function]]. The Euler numbers are related to a special value of the [[Euler polynomials]], namely
:<math>E_n=2^nE_n(\tfrac 12).</math>

The Euler numbers appear in the Taylor series expansions of the [[Trigonometric functions|secant]] and [[hyperbolic secant]] functions. The latter is the function in the definition. They also occur in [[combinatorics]], specifically when counting the number of [[alternating permutation]]s of a set with an even number of elements.

== Examples ==
The odd-indexed Euler numbers are all [[0 (number)|zero]]. The even-indexed ones {{OEIS|id=A028296}} have alternating signs. Some values are:
:{|
|''E''0 ||=||align=right| 1
|-
|''E''2 ||=||align=right| −1
|-
|''E''4 ||=||align=right| 5
|-
|''E''6 ||=||align=right| −61
|-
|''E''8 ||=||align=right| {{val|1385|fmt=gaps}}
|-
|''E''10 ||=||align=right| {{val|−50521}}
|-
|''E''12 ||=||align=right| {{val|2,702,765}}
|-
|''E''14 ||=||align=right| {{val|−199,360,981}}
|-
|''E''16 ||=||align=right| {{val|19,391,512,145}}
|-
|''E''18 ||=||align=right| {{val|−2,404,879,675,441}}
|}
Some authors re-index the sequence in order to omit the odd-numbered Euler numbers with value zero, or change all signs to positive {{OEIS|id=A000364}}. This article adheres to the convention adopted above.

==Explicit formulas ==

=== In terms of Stirling numbers of the second kind ===
The following two formulas express the Euler numbers in terms of [[Stirling numbers of the second kind]]:<ref>{{cite journal | first1=Sumit Kumar | last1= Jha | title=A new explicit formula for Bernoulli numbers involving the Euler number | journal=Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory | volume=8 | issue=4 | pages=385–387 | year=2019 | url= https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.moscow/1572314455| doi= 10.2140/moscow.2019.8.389 | s2cid= 209973489 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://osf.io/smw7h/ |title=A new explicit formula for the Euler numbers in terms of the Stirling numbers of the second kind |last=Jha |first=Sumit Kumar |date= 15 November 2019}}</ref>

:<math> E_{n}=2^{2n-1}\sum_{\ell=1}^{n}\frac{(-1)^{\ell}S(n,\ell)}{\ell+1}\left(3\left(\frac{1}{4}\right)^{\overline{\ell\phantom{.}}}-\left(\frac{3}{4}\right)^{\overline{\ell\phantom{.}}}\right), </math>
:<math> E_{2n}=-4^{2n}\sum_{\ell=1}^{2n}(-1)^{\ell}\cdot \frac{S(2n,\ell)}{\ell+1}\cdot \left(\frac{3}{4}\right)^{\overline{\ell\phantom{.}}},</math>

where <math> S(n,\ell) </math> denotes the [[Stirling numbers of the second kind]], and <math> x^{\overline{\ell\phantom{.}}}=(x)(x+1)\cdots (x+\ell-1) </math> denotes the [[Falling and rising factorials|rising factorial]].

=== As a recursion ===
The Euler numbers can be defined by the recursion

<math>E_{2n}=-\sum_{{k=1}}^{n}\binom{2n}{2k}E_{2(n-k)},</math>

or equivalently

<math>1=-\sum_{{k=1}}^{n}\binom{2n}{2k}E_{2k},</math>

Both of these recursions can be found by using the fact that

<math>\cos(x)\sec(x)=1.</math>

===As a double sum===
The following two formulas express the Euler numbers as double sums<ref>{{cite journal | first1=Chun-Fu | last1= Wei | first2=Feng | last2=Qi | title=Several closed expressions for the Euler numbers | journal=Journal of Inequalities and Applications |year=2015 | article-number= 219 | doi= 10.1186/s13660-015-0738-9 | doi-access=free }}
</ref>
:<math>E_{2n}=(2 n+1)\sum_{\ell=1}^{2n} (-1)^{\ell}\frac{1}{2^{\ell}(\ell +1)}\binom{2 n}{\ell}\sum _{q=0}^{\ell}\binom{\ell}{q}(2q-\ell)^{2n}, </math>
:<math>E_{2n}=\sum_{k=1}^{2n}(-1)^{k} \frac{1}{2^{k}}\sum_{\ell=0}^{2k}(-1)^{\ell } \binom{2k}{\ell}(k-\ell)^{2n}. </math>

===As an iterated sum===
An explicit formula for Euler numbers is

:<math>E_{2n}=i\sum _{k=1}^{2n+1} \sum _{\ell=0}^k \binom{k}{\ell}\frac{(-1)^\ell(k-2\ell)^{2n+1}}{2^k i^k k},</math>

where {{mvar|i}} denotes the [[imaginary unit]] with {{math|''i''2 {{=}} −1}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oeis.org/A000111/a000111.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409060145/http://oeis.org/A000111/a000111.pdf |archive-date=2014-04-09 |url-status=live |title=An Explicit Formula for the Euler zigzag numbers (Up/down numbers) from power series |last=Tang |first=Ross |date= 2012-05-11}}
</ref>

===As a sum over partitions===
The Euler number {{math|''E''2''n''}} can be expressed as a sum over the even [[Integer partition|partitions]] of {{math|2''n''}},<ref>{{cite journal | first1=David C. | last1= Vella | title=Explicit Formulas for Bernoulli and Euler Numbers | journal=Integers | volume=8 | issue=1 | pages=A1 | year=2008 | url= http://www.integers-ejcnt.org/vol8.html}}</ref>

:<math> E_{2n} = (2n)! \sum_{0 \leq k_1, \ldots, k_n \leq n} \binom K {k_1, \ldots , k_n}
\delta_{n,\sum mk_m} \left( -\frac{1}{2!} \right)^{k_1} \left( -\frac{1}{4!} \right)^{k_2}
\cdots \left( -\frac{1}{(2n)!} \right)^{k_n} ,</math>

as well as a sum over the odd partitions of {{math|2''n'' − 1}},<ref>{{cite arXiv | eprint=1103.1585 | first1= J. | last1=Malenfant | title=Finite, Closed-form Expressions for the Partition Function and for Euler, Bernoulli, and Stirling Numbers| class= math.NT | year= 2011 }}</ref>

:<math> E_{2n} = (-1)^{n-1} (2n-1)! \sum_{0 \leq k_1, \ldots, k_n \leq 2n-1}
\binom K {k_1, \ldots , k_n}
\delta_{2n-1,\sum (2m-1)k_m } \left( -\frac{1}{1!} \right)^{k_1} \left( \frac{1}{3!} \right)^{k_2}
\cdots \left( \frac{(-1)^n}{(2n-1)!} \right)^{k_n} , </math>

where in both cases {{math|''K'' {{=}} ''k''1 + ··· + ''kn''}} and
:<math> \binom K {k_1, \ldots , k_n}
\equiv \frac{ K!}{k_1! \cdots k_n!}</math>
is a [[multinomial coefficient]]. The [[Kronecker delta]]s in the above formulas restrict the sums over the {{mvar|k}}s to {{math|2''k''1 + 4''k''2 + ··· + 2''nkn'' {{=}} 2''n''}} and to {{math|''k''1 + 3''k''2 + ··· + (2''n'' − 1)''kn'' {{=}} 2''n'' − 1}}, respectively.

As an example,
:<math>
\begin{align}
E_{10} & = 10! \left( - \frac{1}{10!} + \frac{2}{2!\,8!} + \frac{2}{4!\,6!}
- \frac{3}{2!^2\, 6!}- \frac{3}{2!\,4!^2} +\frac{4}{2!^3\, 4!} - \frac{1}{2!^5}\right) \\[6pt]
& = 9! \left( - \frac{1}{9!} + \frac{3}{1!^2\,7!} + \frac{6}{1!\,3!\,5!}
+\frac{1}{3!^3}- \frac{5}{1!^4\,5!} -\frac{10}{1!^3\,3!^2} + \frac{7}{1!^6\, 3!} - \frac{1}{1!^9}\right) \\[6pt]
& = -50\,521.
\end{align}
</math>

===As a determinant===
{{math|''E''2''n''}} is given by the [[determinant]]

:<math>
\begin{align}
E_{2n} &=(-1)^n (2n)!~ \begin{vmatrix} \frac{1}{2!}& 1 &~& ~&~\\
\frac{1}{4!}& \frac{1}{2!} & 1 &~&~\\
\vdots & ~ & \ddots~~ &\ddots~~ & ~\\
\frac{1}{(2n-2)!}& \frac{1}{(2n-4)!}& ~&\frac{1}{2!} & 1\\
\frac{1}{(2n)!}&\frac{1}{(2n-2)!}& \cdots & \frac{1}{4!} & \frac{1}{2!}\end{vmatrix}.

\end{align}
</math>

===As an integral===
{{math|''E''2''n''}} is also given by the following integrals:
:<math>
\begin{align}
(-1)^n E_{2n} & = \int_0^\infty \frac{t^{2n}}{\cosh\frac{\pi t}2}\; dt =\left(\frac2\pi\right)^{2n+1} \int_0^\infty \frac{x^{2n}}{\cosh x}\; dx\\[8pt]
&=\left(\frac2\pi\right)^{2n} \int_0^1\log^{2n}\left(\tan \frac{\pi t}{4} \right)\,dt =\left(\frac2\pi\right)^{2n+1}\int_0^{\pi/2} \log^{2n}\left(\tan \frac{x}{2} \right)\,dx\\[8pt]
&= \frac{2^{2n+3}}{\pi^{2n+2}} \int_0^{\pi/2} x \log^{2n} (\tan x)\,dx = \left(\frac2\pi\right)^{2n+2} \int_0^\pi \frac{x}{2} \log^{2n} \left(\tan \frac{x}{2} \right)\,dx.\end{align}
</math>

==Congruences==
W. Zhang<ref>{{cite journal | first1=W.P.| last1= Zhang | title=Some identities involving the Euler and the central factorial numbers | journal=Fibonacci Quarterly | volume=36 | issue=4 | pages=154–157 | year=1998 | doi= 10.1080/00150517.1998.12428950 | url= https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/FQ/Scanned/36-2/zhang.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123004402/https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/FQ/Scanned/36-2/zhang.pdf |archive-date=2019-11-23 |url-status=live}}</ref> obtained the following combinational identities concerning the Euler numbers. For any prime <math> p </math>, we have
:<math>
(-1)^{\frac{p-1}{2}} E_{p-1} \equiv \textstyle\begin{cases} \phantom{-} 0 \mod p &\text{if }p\equiv 1\bmod 4; \\ -2 \mod p & \text{if }p\equiv 3\bmod 4. \end{cases}
</math>
W. Zhang and Z. Xu<ref>{{cite journal | first1=W.P. | last1= Zhang | first2= Z.F. | last2=Xu | title=On a conjecture of the Euler numbers | journal=Journal of Number Theory | volume=127 | issue=2| pages= 283–291 | year=2007 | doi= 10.1016/j.jnt.2007.04.004 | doi-access=free }}
</ref> proved that, for any prime <math>p \equiv 1 \pmod{4}</math> and integer <math> \alpha\geq 1 </math>, we have
:<math> E_{\phi(p^{\alpha})/2}\not \equiv 0 \pmod{p^{\alpha}}, </math>
where <math>\phi(n)</math> is the [[Euler's totient function]].

==Lower bound==

The Euler numbers grow quite rapidly for large indices, as they have the lower bound

: <math> |E_{2 n}| > 8 \sqrt { \frac{n}{\pi} } \left(\frac{4 n}{ \pi e}\right)^{2 n}. </math>

==Euler zigzag numbers==
The [[Taylor series]] of <math>\sec x + \tan x = \tan\left(\frac\pi4 + \frac x2\right)</math> is

:<math>\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{A_n}{n!}x^n,</math>

where {{mvar|An}} is the [[Alternating permutation|Euler zigzag numbers]], beginning with
:1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 16, 61, 272, 1385, 7936, 50521, 353792, 2702765, 22368256, 199360981, 1903757312, 19391512145, 209865342976, 2404879675441, 29088885112832, ... {{OEIS|id=A000111}}

For all even {{mvar|n}},
:<math>A_n = (-1)^\frac{n}{2} E_n,</math>
where {{mvar|''En''}} is the Euler number, and for all odd {{mvar|n}},
:<math>A_n = (-1)^\frac{n-1}{2}\frac{2^{n+1}\left(2^{n+1}-1\right)B_{n+1}}{n+1},</math>
where {{mvar|''Bn''}} is the [[Bernoulli number]].

For every ''n'',
:<math>\frac{A_{n-1}}{(n-1)!}\sin{\left(\frac{n\pi}{2}\right)}+\sum_{m=0}^{n-1}\frac{A_m}{m!(n-m-1)!}\sin{\left(\frac{m\pi}{2}\right)}=\frac{1}{(n-1)!}.</math>{{cn|date=September 2016}}

==See also==
* [[Bell number]]
* [[Bernoulli number]]
* [[Dirichlet beta function]]
* [[Euler–Mascheroni constant]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{springer|title=Euler numbers|id=p/e036540}}
* {{MathWorld|urlname=EulerNumber|title=Euler number}}

{{Classes of natural numbers}}
{{Leonhard Euler}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Euler Number}}
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