===== Finite exponential power =====
==== Function ====
| @#55CCEE: context     | @#55CCEE: $ m\in{\mathbb N} |
| @#FF9944: definition  | @#FF9944: ${\rm pexp}_n: \mathbb C\to\mathbb C$ |
| @#FF9944: definition  | @#FF9944: ${\rm pexp}_n(z) := \left(1 + \dfrac {x} {n} \right)^n $ |

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${\rm pexp}_n(x) = \sum_{k=0}^n a_k(n)\dfrac {1} {k!} x^k $

with

$a_k(n)=\prod_{j=1}^{k-1}\left(1-\dfrac{k-j}{n}\right)\le 1$

**Elaboration**

$\left(x+y\right)^m=\sum_{k=0}^m \dfrac{n!}{k!\,(m-k)!} x^k y^{m-k}$

so

$\left(1 + b(n)\,x \right)^n = \sum_{k=0}^n \left( b(n)^{-k}\dfrac {n!} {(n-k)!} \right) \dfrac {x^k} {k!}$

(Note that here the summands depend on the upper sum bound $n$, this sum doesn't make for an infinite sum of partial sums - the to be partial sums are all different)

The above sum follows. Also,

$= \sum_{k=0}^n \left(\prod_{j=1}^{k}\left(\dfrac{1}{j}-\dfrac{1}{n}\left(\frac{k}{j}-1\right)\right) x \right)$

**Derivative**

$\frac{\mathrm d}{\mathrm d z}{\rm pexp}_n(z)=\dfrac{1}{1+z/n}{\rm pexp}_n(z)$

$\frac{\mathrm d}{\mathrm d n}{\rm pexp}_n(z)=-\left(\dfrac{1}{1+(z/n)^{-1}}+\log\left(\dfrac{1}{1+z/n}\right)\right){\rm pexp}_n(z)$


=== References ===
Wikipedia: 
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_function|Exponential function]], 
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_exponential|Matrix exponential]], 
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_map|Exponential map]]

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=== Related ===
[[Finite exponential series]]