1. Introduction
One of the most important generalizations of conventional calculus is quantum calculus, often known as
q-calculus, because it has been shown to be applicable to quantum physics and various other fields of study, including number theory, combinations, orthogonal polynomials, etc. Initially, the theory of
q-calculus was developed by Jackson [
1]. The introduction of
q-calculus opened the possibility for the introduction and study of the
q-analogs of several elementary and special functions, for example,
q-exponential,
q-trigonometric,
q-gamma,
q-beta [
2],
q-hypergeometric [
3], and
q-Bessel functions [
4,
5]. In recent years, the theory of
q-special functions has attracted additional attention due to their usefulness in different emerging branches of mathematics and the sciences.
There is a close relationship between Bessel functions and problems involving circular or cylindrical symmetry. The free vibrations of a circular membrane can be studied, and the temperature distribution along a cylinder can be calculated, as two examples. Not only are they essential in electromagnetic theory but also in countless other branches of physics and engineering. Because of their natural link with cylinder-shaped domains, “cylinder functions” are shorthand for all solutions to Bessel’s equation.
We were motivated by the applications of Bessel functions in different fields of science and engineering. Bessel functions are also used to find separable solutions to Laplace’s equation and the Helmholtz equation in spherical coordinates and are therefore particularly relevant for many situations involving wave propagation and static potentials. The
q-analog of these functions has attracted the attention of several researchers, who developed the theory of
q-Bessel functions.
q-Bessel function
was introduced and studied by Jackson [
6].
was introduced and studied by Ismail [
7] and also studied by Hahn [
8]. Hahn and Exton introduced the third
q-Bessel function [
9,
10,
11]. Some well-known forms of
q-Bessel functions (
) of the first kind can be found in [
4,
12]. The theory of
q-Bessel functions has been studied by many mathematicians and physicists. This theory has grown to include two variables [
13] and generalized
q-Bessel functions [
14]. Srivastava [
15] considered some recent developments with respect to the extension of the
q-Bessel polynomials.
Recently, several researchers working in the field of
q-special functions introduced and studied several properties of
q-Bessel functions (see, e.g., [
13,
14,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21]). The series definition of a
q-Bessel function
is given by the following expression
which converges absolutely for
and
. The following generating function also characterizes the first kind of
q-Bessel functions (
or
) (see, e.g., [
4,
12]):
For any real number (
), in view of (
1), we have the following series definition of the
q-Bessel functions of the second kind:
In this paper, we present new properties of
q-Bessel functions. Applying our results, we characterize
q-Bessel functions of the first kind. New summation and integral representations for
q-Bessel functions of the first kind are also established. In summary, some of the results presented in this paper are original; we also refer to results reported in the literature as special cases (see, e.g., [
2,
3,
4,
5,
7,
9,
10,
11,
12,
22,
23] and references therein).
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we state some basic definitions, notations, and known results in quantum calculus that are needed for further discussion throughout this paper.
The complex number
w has a
q-analog defined as follows (see, e.g., [
24,
25]):
The
q-factorial (see [
24,
25]) is defined as
which satisfies
. For
and
, the
q-shift factorials (
) (see [
24,
25]) are defined by
and
The following known property is important for computation (see [
24]):
For more information on the
q-shift factorial (
), please refer to [
24,
25] and related references therein. It is known that the equivalent expression of Equation (
4) is represented by (see [
24,
25])
where
is the
q-gamma function (see, e.g., [
2]) satisfying
Gauss’s
q-binomial coefficient (see [
24,
25]) is given by
For more details, we refer the reader to [
24,
25] and references therein.
In [
24,
25], the two
q-exponential functions indicated by
and
were defined, respectively, by
and
The following is the relationship between and :
Theorem 1 (see, e.g., [
24,
25]).
For , we have In [
26], when a function (
f) was being differentiated with regard to an
x value, the notation for the
q-derivative is (
) was given by
The
kth-order
q-derivatives of
q-exponential functions (see [
26]) are given by
and
where
represents the k
-order
q-derivative with regard to
x. In particular, we use
instead of
. The following formula is well known (see [
26]):
For any function (
) the
q-definite integral is defined as follows (see, e.g., [
1]):
In particular, we have the following (see [
1]):
A
q-definite integral of the
q-derivative of a function (
f) on
is defined as follows (see, e.g., [
1]):
For more information on the
q-derivative and
q-definite integral, we refer the reader to [
1] and references therein.
It is well known that the following generating function characterizes the Bessel functions of the first kind (
) (see [
27]):
and the series definition
In view of Equation (
13), for
, we have
By comparing the two sides of the previous equation, we find that
and
Again, based on Equation (
13), we can deduce
Furthermore, inputting
and
into the
q-derivative of Equation (
14), we obtain
For more details, we refer the reader to [
27] and references therein. It is well known that
It is obvious that if we take
in (
2), we obtain
Comparing both sides of the above equation for equal powers of
t, we obtain
and
Taking
and
into the
q-derivative of Equation (
2), we have
Similarly, taking
and
into the
q-derivative of Equation (
2) yields
Remark 1. Replacing x with in (1) yields Theorem 2 (see, e.g., [
27]).
For any Bessel function (), the following differential recurrence relations hold:and Remark 2. Taking in Equation (20) yields The following crucial formulas are used to prove our results.
3. Characteristics of -Bessel Functions
In this section, we study several features of q-Bessel functions of the first kind, including their recurrence relations.
We now establish the following recurrence relations for a q-Bessel function ().
Theorem 5. The q-derivative of the product of q-Bessel function and power can be expressed by the following recurrence relation Proof. By multiplying each side of (
1) by
, then taking the
q-derivative of the product with regard to
x, we obtain
From Equation (
3) for
, we have
Incorporating the aforementioned formula into the right-hand side of Equation (
27), we obtain
By using (
1), we can prove (
26). □
Theorem 6. The q-derivative of the product of q-Bessel function and power can be expressed by the following recurrence relation: Proof. By multiplying both sides of Equation (
1) by
and taking the
q-derivative of both sides of the result with respect to
x yields
Based on Equation (
3), for
, we have
Taking the preceding formula into the right-hand side of Equation (
30) yields
or, equivalently,
Making use of (
1), we arrive at (
29). □
Theorem 7. The q-derivative of q-Bessel function can be expressed by the following recurrence relation: Proof. Applying (
10) to the left side of Equation (
26), we have
or, equivalently,
which can be rewritten as (
31). □
Inputting (
10) into the left-hand side of (
29), we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 8. The q-derivative of q-Bessel function can be expressed by the following recurrence relation: Theorem 9. The q-derivative of q-Bessel function can be expressed by the following recurrence relation: Proof. Multiplying Equation (
31) by
q and adding the result to Equation (
34), we obtain (
35). □
Theorem 10. The q-derivative of the product of q-Bessel function and can be expressed by the following recurrence relation: Proof. The difference between Equation (
31) and Equation (
34) yields (
36). □
As direct consequences of Theorems 5–10, we establish the following identities for q-Bessel function .
Corollary 1. The following identities hold:and Proof. - (i)
Taking
in Equations (
26) and (
29), we obtain
which is equivalent to (
37).
- (ii)
Taking
in Equation (
29), we have
which is equivalent to (
38).
- (iii)
Taking
in Equation (
34), we show (
39).
- (iv)
Differentiating both sides of Equation (
39) with respect to
x, we prove (
40).
□
Now, we represent some integral representations of a
q-Bessel function (
). In view of Equations (
15), (
39) and (
40) and using Equations (
11) and (
16), we obtain the following:
and
Substituting
n with
in (
2) and substituting
n with
in (
2), since
(see [
18]), we establish the following formulas for
q-Bessel functions of the first kind:
Remark 3. - (1)
Equations (17)–(22) can be obtained by substituting in Equations (26)–(36), respectively; - (2)
Equations (23) and (24) can be obtained by substituting in Equations (44) and (45), respectively.
Here, we provide various examples illustrating the efficacy of the outcomes achieved in this part.
Example 1. - (1)
Taking into Equations (26) and (29), we obtain the following recurrence relations of the q-derivatives of the products of with power and with power :and - (2)
Taking into Equations (31) and (34), we obtain the following recurrence relations for :and - (3)
Taking in Equation (35), we obtain the following recurrence relation of :
4. Summation and Integral Representations
In this section, we establish some summation and integral formulas for a
q-Bessel function (
) by utilizing the identities (
7) and (
9), as well as the generating function and series description, of
.
Recall that the hypergeometric representation of
was defined by (see [
28])
and
In particular, the following
q-hypergeometric functions was given in (see [
28]):
Theorem 11. The following summation formulas of q-Bessel function hold: Proof. In view of Equation (
9), we have
which, upon using Equations (
8), (
7) and (
2), yields
or, equivalently,
By changing the index of
n to
as the range of the values of
n on
, we obtain
Therefore, by comparing the equal powers of
t on both sides, we obtain (
48). □
Theorem 12. The following summation formula of q-Bessel functions holds: Proof. By applying Equation (
1), we have
By multiplying the right side of the above equation by
,
and
, we obtain
Making further use of (
5) and the following property (see [
28])
we arrive at
Making use of Equation (
46) yields
By using Equation (
47), we obtain
or, equivalently,
Therefore, making use of Equation (
6), we obtain
By applying Equation (
12), we obtain
which can be simplified as (
49). □
Theorem 13. The following summation formula of q-Bessel functions () holds: Proof. By replacing
x with
in the generating function (
2), we have
By using Equation (
2) again, we obtain
Equating the equal powers of
t, we prove (
50). □
Remark 4. When , Equation (49) reduces to Equation (25). Finally, we consider a few examples that show the effectiveness of the results that were attained in this section.
Example 2. - (1)
Taking in Equation (48), we obtain the following summation formula of q-Bessel function : - (2)
Taking in Equation (50), we obtain the following summation formula of q-Bessel function :
5. Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Work
Recently, many special q-functions have been used to study quantum calculus. It is amazing that this led to the presentation of new properties of q-Bessel functions of the first kind using some identities of q-calculus. The generating function and series definition of the q-Bessel functions of the first kind () are the most important part of all of these tasks. In this paper, we characterized the properties of q-Bessel functions of the first kind and obtained some of their recurrence relations, summation formulas, and integral representations. We also presented a few examples to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.
We now outline our proposed main avenues for future research, starting with the work presented here. The results presented in this paper suggest several ideas to characterize properties of q-Bessel functions and other special q-functions of the second and third kinds and obtain recurrence relations, summation formulas, and integral representations. Moreover, the results established in this paper can help us obtain new expression results related to other special q-functions in future studies.