1. Introduction
Operational techniques involving differential operators, which is a consequence of the monomiality principle, provide efficient tools in the theory of conventional polynomial systems and their various generalizations. Steffensen [
1] suggested the concept of poweroid, which happens to be behind the idea of monomiality. The principle of monomiality was subsequently reformulated and developed by Dattoli [
2]. The strategy underlining this viewpoint is apparently simple, but the outcomes are remarkably deep.
In the theory of the monomiality principle, a polynomial set 
  is quasi-monomial if there exist two operators 
 and 
 which are named the 
multiplicative and the 
derivative operators, respectively, are defined as follows:
	  together with the initial condition given by
      
The operators 
 and 
 satisfy the following commutation relation:
	  Thus, clearly, these operators display a Weyl group structure.
The properties of the polynomials 
 can be deduced from those of the operators 
 and 
. If 
 and 
 possess a differential character, then the polynomials 
 satisfy the following differential equation:
The polynomial family 
 can be explicitly constructed through the action of 
 on 
 as follows:
	  Just as in (
1), we shall always assume that 
. In view of the above identity (
4), the exponential generating function of 
 can be written in the form:
We now introduce the truncated-exponential polynomials 
 (see [
3]) defined by the following series:
	  that is, by the first 
 terms of the Taylor-Maclaurin series for the exponential function 
. These truncated-exponential polynomials play an important rôle in many problems in optics and quantum mechanics. However, their properties are apparently as widespread as they should be. The truncated-exponential polynomials 
 have been used to evaluate several overlapping integrals associated with the optical mode evolution or for characterizing the structure of the flattened beams. Their usefulness has led to the possibility of appropriately extending their definition. Actually, Dattoli et al. [
4] systematically studied the properties of these polynomials.
The definition (
6) does lead us to most (if not all) of the properties of the polynomials 
. We note the following representation:
	  which follows readily from the classical gamma-function representation (see, for details, [
3]). Consequently, we have the following generating function for the truncated-exponential polynomials 
 (see [
4]):
The definition (
6) of 
 can thus be extended to a family of potentially useful truncated-exponential polynomials as follows (see [
4]):
	  which obviously possesses a generating function in the form (see [
4]):
We also recall the higher-order truncated-exponential polynomials 
, which are defined by the following series (see [
4]):
	  and specified by the following generating function (see [
4]):
The special two-variable case of the polynomials in (
11) (that is, the case when 
) are important for applications. Moreover, these polynomials help us derive several potentially useful identities in a simple way and in investigating other novel families of polynomial systems. Actually, Equation (
12) enables us to give a new family of polynomials as has been given in Theorem 1.
A 2-variable extension of the truncated-exponential polynomials is given by (see [
4])
      
      and possesses the following generating function (see [
4]):
With a view to introducing a mixed family of polynomials related to the familiar Sheffer sequence, we first consider the 2-variable truncated-exponential polynomials (2VTEP) 
 of order 
r, which are expressed explicitly by (see [
5])
      
      and which are generated by
      
From (
8), (
10), (
12), (
14) and (
16), we can deduce several special cases of the 2VTEP 
, For example, we have
      
As it is shown in [
6,
7], the 2VTEP 
 are quasi-monomial (see also [
1,
2]) with respect to multiplicative and derivative operators given by
      
      and
      
      where
      
Thus, if we apply the monomiality principle as well as the Equations (
18) and (
19), we have
      
      and
      
     respectively.
The 2VTEP 
 are quasi-monomial, so their properties can be derived from those of the multiplicative and derivative operators 
 and 
, respectively. We thus find that
      
      which satisfies a differential equation for 
 as follows:
Again, since 
, the 2VTEP 
 can be explicitly constructed as follows:
	  Equation (
24) yields the following generating function of the 2VTEP 
:
We can easily verify the following relation between 
 and 
:
Denoting the classical Bernoulli, Euler and Genocchi polynomials by 
, 
 and 
, respectively, we now recall their familiar generalizations 
, 
 and 
 of order 
, which are generated by (see, for details, [
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14]; see also [
15] as well as the references cited therein):
      and
      
	  Obviously, we have
      
      It is also known that
      
      for the Bernoulli, Euler, and Genocchi numbers 
, 
 and 
, respectively.
The Apostol-Bernoulli polynomials 
 of order 
 was introduced by Luo and Srivastava (see [
16,
17]). Subsequently, the Apostol-Euler polynomials 
 and the Apostol-Genocchi polynomials 
 of order 
 were analogously studied by Luo (see [
18,
19,
20]; see also [
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27]).
Definition 1. The Apostol-Bernoulli polynomials  of order α are defined bywithwhere  denotes the Apostol-Bernoulli numbers of order α.  Definition 2. The Apostol-Euler polynomials  of order α are defined bywithwhere  denotes the Apostol-Euler numbers of order α.  Definition 3. The Apostol-Genocchi polynomials  of order α are defined bywithwhere  denotes the Apostol-Genocchi numbers of order α.  Remark 1. Whenever  in (32) and  in (36), the order α of the Apostol-Bernoulli polynomials  and the order α of the Apostol-Genocchi polynomials  should obviously be constrained to take on nonnegative integer values (see, for details, [14]). A similar remark would apply also to the order α in all other analogous situations considered in this paper.  Among other authors, Özden (see [
28,
29]), Özden et al. ([
30]) and Özarslan (see [
31,
32]) introduced and studied the unification of the above-defined Apostol-type polynomials. In particular, Özden ([
29]) defined the unified polynomials 
 of higher order by
      
By putting 
 in (
39), we can readily obtain the corresponding unification 
 of the Apostol-type polynomials, which is generated by
      
	  In fact, from Equations (
32), (
34), (
36) and (
39), we have
      
      and
      
Definition 4. For an arbitrary real or complex parameter  the number  is given by Zhang and Yang (see [19])which, for  yields  Our main objective in this article is to first appropriately combine the 2-variable truncated-exponential polynomials and the Apostol-type polynomials by means of operational techniques. This leads us to the truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials. By framing these polynomials within the context of the monomiality principle, we then establish their potentially useful properties. We also derive some other properties and investigate several implicit summation formulas for this general family of polynomials by making use of several different analytical techniques on their generating functions. We choose to point out some relevant connections between the truncated-exponential polynomials and the Apostol-type polynomials and thereby derive extensions of several symmetric identities.
  2. Two-Variable Truncated-Exponential-Based Apostol-Type Polynomials
We now start with the following theorem arising from the generating functions for the truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials (TEATP), which are denoted by .
Theorem 1. The generating function for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials  is given by  Proof.  Replacing 
x in the left-hand side and the right-hand side of (
39) by the multiplicative operator 
 of the 2VTEATP 
, we have
        
        Using Equation (
25) in the left-hand side and Equation (
18) in the right-hand side of Equation (
46), we see that
        
       Now, using Equation (
16) in the left-hand side and denoting the resulting 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials (2VTEATP) in the right-hand side by 
, we have
        
        which yields the assertion (
45) of Theorem 1. □
 Remark 2. Equation (48) gives the operational representation involving the unified Apostol-type polynomials  and 2VTEATP .  To frame the 2VTEATP  within the context of monomiality principle, we state the following result.
Theorem 2. The 2VTEATP  are quasi-monomial with respect to the following multiplicative and derivative operators:and  Proof.  Let us consider the following expression:
        
       Differentiating both sides of Equation (
45) partially with respect to 
t, we see that
        
        Since
        
        is an invertible series of 
t, therefore,
        
        possesses a power-series expansion in 
t. Thus, using (
51), Equation (52) becomes
        
        Again, by using the generating function (
45) in left-hand side of Equation (53) and rearranging the resulting summation, we have
        
        Comparing the coefficients of 
 in the Equation (54), we get
        
        which, in view of the monomiality principle exhibited in Equation (
20) for 
, yields the assertion (
49) of Theorem 2.
We now prove the assertion (
50) of Theorem 2. For this purpose, we start with the following identity arising from Equations (
45) and (
51):
        
        Rearranging the summation in the left-hand side of Equation (
56), and then equating the coefficients of the same powers of 
t in both sides of the resulting equation, we find that
        
        which, in view of the monomiality principle exhibited in Equation (
21) for 
, yields the assertion (
50) of Theorem 2. Our demonstration of Theorem 2 is thus completed. □
 We note that the properties of quasi-monomials can be derived by means of the actions of the multiplicative and derivative operators. We derive the differential equation for the 2VTEATP  in the following theorem.
Theorem 3. The 2VTEATP  satisfies the following differential equation:  Proof.  Theorem 3 can be easily proved by combining (
49) and (
50) with the monomiality principle exhibited in (
22). □
 Remark 3. When  the 2VTEP  of order r reduces to the 2VTEP . Therefore, if we set  in Equation (45), we get the following generating function for the 2-variable truncated-exponential Apostol-type polynomials (2VTEATP) The series definition and other results for the 2VTEATP  can be obtained by taking  in Theorems 1 and 2. Table 1 shown the special cases of the 2VTEATP .  Remark 4. For the case , the polynomials  reduce to the truncated-exponential polynomials . Therefore, by  taking  in Equation (59), we get the following generating function for the truncated-exponential Apostol-type polynomials (TEATP)   In the case when 
, the results obtained above for the 2VTEABP 
, 2VTEAEP 
 and 2VTEAGP 
 give the corresponding results for the 2-variable truncated-exponential Bernoulli polynomials (2VTEBP) (of order 
) 
, 2-variable truncated-exponential Euler polynomials (2VTEBP) (of order 
) 
 and 2-variable truncated-exponential Genocchi polynomials (2VTGBP) (of order 
) 
 [
6]. Again for 
, we get the corresponding results for the 2-variable truncated-exponential Bernoulli polynomials (2VTEBP) 
, 2-variable truncated-exponential Euler polynomials (2VTEEP) 
 and 2-variable truncated-exponential Genocchi polynomials (2VTEGP) 
.
  3. Implicit Formulas Involving the 2-Variable Truncated-Exponential Based Apostol-Type Polynomials
In this section, we employ the definition of the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials 
 that help in proving the generalizations of the previous works of Khan et al. [
33] and Pathan and Khan (see [
34,
35,
36]). For the derivation of implicit formulas involving the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials 
, the same considerations as developed for the ordinary Hermite and related polynomials in the works by Khan et al. [
33] and Pathan et al. (see [
34,
35,
36]) apply as well. We first prove the following results involving the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials 
.
Theorem 4. The following implicit summation formulas for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials  holds true:  Proof.  We replace 
t by 
 and rewrite (
45) as follows:
        
		Replacing 
x by 
z in the Equation (
62) and equating the resulting equation to the above equation, we get
        
        Upon expanding the exponential function (
63), we get
        
        which, by appealing to the following series manipulation formula:
        
        in the left-hand side of (
64), becomes
        
        Now, replacing 
q by 
 and 
l by 
, and using a lemma in [
37] in the left-hand side of (
66), we get
        
Finally, on equating the coefficients of the like powers of 
t and 
u in the equation (67), we get the required result (
61) asserted by Theorem 4. □
 If we set
      
      in Theorem 4, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 1. The following implicit summation formula for the truncated-exponential-based Bernoulli polynomials  holds true:  For
      
      in Theorem 4, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 2. The following implicit summation formula for the truncated-exponential-based Euler polynomials  holds true:  Letting
      
      in Theorem 4, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 3. The following implicit summation formulas for the truncated-exponential-based Genocchi polynomials  holds true:  Theorem 5. The following implicit summation formula involving the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials  holds true:  Proof.  By the definition (
45), we have
        
       Now, replacing 
n by 
 in the right-hand side of the Equation (
72) and comparing the coefficients of 
t, we get the result (
71) asserted by Theorem 5. □
 If we set
      
      in Theorem 5, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 4. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Bernoulli polynomials  holds true:  For
      
      in Theorem 5, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 5. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Euler polynomials  holds true:  Letting
      
      in Theorem 5, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 6. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Genocchi polynomials  holds true:  Theorem 6. The following implicit summation formula involving the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials  holds true:  Proof.  We first replace 
x by 
 in (
45). Then, by using (
16), we rewrite the generating function (
45) as follows:
        
		Furthermore, upon replacing 
n by 
 in 
l.h.s and comparing the coefficients of 
, we complete the proof of Theorem 6. □
 For
      
     in Theorem 6, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 7. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Bernoulli polynomials  holds true:  Upon setting
      
      in Theorem 6, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 8. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Euler polynomials  holds true:  Letting
      
      in Theorem 6, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 9. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Genocchi polynomials  holds true:  Theorem 7. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials  holds true:  Proof.  Let us rewrite Equation (
45) as follows:
        
        Replacing 
n by 
 and using (
45), and then equating the coefficients of the of 
, we complete the proof of Theorem 7. □
 For
      
      in Theorem 7, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 10. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type Bernoulli polynomials  holds true:  Letting
      
      in Theorem 7, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 11. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type Euler polynomials  holds true:  If we set
      
      in Theorem 7, we get the following corollary.
Corollary 12. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type Genocchi polynomials  holds true:  Theorem 8. The following implicit summation formula for the 2-variable truncated-exponential-based Apostol-type polynomials  holds true:  Proof.  Using the generating function (
45), we find that
        
        which, upon equating the coefficients of 
, yields the assertion (
86) of Theorem 8. □
 Remark 5. Several corollaries and consequences of Theorem 11 can be deduced by using many of the aforementioned specializations of the various parameters involved in Theorem 8.