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Milo Moses
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Closed form for odd part of Bernoulli Polynomial generating function, $\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}B_{2k+1}(x)\frac{t^{2k+1}}{(2k+1)!}$

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Milo Moses
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Closed form for odd part of Bernoulli Polynomial generating function, $\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}B_{2k+1}(x)\frac{t^{2k+1}}{2k+1}$

If $B_k(x)$ are the Bernoulli polynomials, then (by definition, if you like) we get that

$$\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}B_k(x)\frac{t^k}{k!}=\frac{te^{tx}}{e^t-1}$$

My question is whether or not there is a known formula for

$$\mathcal{G}(x;t):=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}B_{2k+1}(x)\frac{t^{2k+1}}{(2k+1)!}.$$

The motivation for this question is that while studying modular forms the formula

$$\sum_{k=1}^{\frac{m-1}{2}}k\mathcal{G}\left(\frac{k}{m},t\right)=\frac{mt}{8\sinh\left(\frac{t}{2}\right)\sinh\left(\frac{t}{2m}\right)}-\frac{t}{8\sinh^{2}\left(\frac{t}{2m}\right)}$$

appeared for every odd integer $m$. This seems to imply that there is something going on with $\mathcal{G}(x;t)$, at least for rational values of $x$.