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From Peter Bala, Oct 03 2019: (Start)
Denominators in the expansion of (2*sinh(x/2))^3 = x^3 + (1/8)*x^5 + (13/1920)*x^7 + (41/193536)*x^9 + ....
Let f(x) be a polynomial in x. The expansion of (2*sinh(x/2))^3 leads to a formula for the third central differences: f(x+3/2) - 3*f(x+1/2) + 3*f(x-1/2) - f(x-3/2) = (2*sinh(D/2))^3(f(x)) = D^3(f(x)) + (1/8)*D^5(f(x)) + (13/1920)* D^7(f(x)) + ..., where D denotes the differential operator d/dx. (End)
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
H. E. Salzer, Tables of coefficients for obtaining central differences from the derivatives, Journal of Mathematics and Physics (this journal is also called Studies in Applied Mathematics), 42 (1963), 162-165, plus several inserted tables.
H. E. Salzer, Annotated scanned copy of left side of Table I.
E. W. Weisstein, Central Difference. From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource.
FORMULA
a(n) = denominator(3! * m(3, 2 * n + 1) / (2 * n + 1)!) where m(k, k) = 1; m(k, q) = 0 for k = 0, k > q, or k + q odd; m(1, q) = 1/2^(q-1) for odd q; m(2, q) = 1 for even q; m(k, q+2) = m(k-2, q) + (k/2)^2 * m(k, q) otherwise. [From Salzer] - Sean A. Irvine, Dec 20 2016
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