An identity of symmetry for the Bernoulli polynomials

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to prove an identity of symmetry for the higher order Bernoulli polynomials. It turns out that the recurrence relation and multiplication theorem for the Bernoulli polynomials which discussed in [F.T. Howard, Application of a recurrence for the Bernoulli numbers, J. Number Theory 52 (1995) 157–172], as well as a relation of symmetry between the power sum polynomials and the Bernoulli numbers developed in [H.J.H. Tuenter, A symmetry of power sum polynomials and Bernoulli numbers, Amer. Math. Monthly 108 (2001) 258–261], are all special cases of our results.