Summation of a family of finite secant sums

Abstract

We use contour integrals and the Cauchy residue theorem in order to derive several summation formulas, in terms of the higher-order Bernoulli polynomials and the ordinary Bernoulli and Euler polynomials, for a remarkably general family of secant sums. Numerous (known or new) special cases are shown to follow readily from the summation formulas presented in this paper.