The purpose of this paper is to show that the natural setting for various Abel and Euler-Maclaurin summation formulas is the class of special function of bounded variation. A function of one real variable is of bounded variation if its distributional derivative is a Radom measure. Such a function decomposes uniquely as sum of three components: the first one is a convergent series of piece-wise constant function, the second one is an absolutely continuous function and the last one is the so-called singular part, that is a continuous function whose derivative vanishes almost everywhere. A function of bounded variation is special if its singular part vanishes identically. We generalize such space of special function of bounded variation to include higher order derivatives and prove that the functions of such spaces admit a Euler-Maclaurin summation formula. Such a result is obtained by deriving in this setting various integration by part formulas which generalizes various classical Abel summation formulas.
Part of the book: Coding Theory