Define a sequence of functions
I found a beautiful closed formula for
Integrating by parts, it's easy to calculate first few
which leads to a hypothesis, that
for certain constants
Again integrating by parts, obtain:
from where
Substitute
Substitute this in the hypothesis:
This nicely contains fragments of exponent, nth-harmonic number and, after a diagonalisation, the Euler constant:
Why
then mth-derivative of
and similarly
where
This is in contrast with powers
It's interesting, which other families
and
(the latter condition is to avoid degenerate cases)?