Consider the ODE
For a timestep , the forward-difference approximator for gives the Euler update as
I am trying to come up with a closed form expression for , that is, one that involves only the constants .
I've tried to do this by first writing as a cumulative sum
I then tried to expand the sum on the right and see if there was any easily identifiable pattern to write more generally, or if it would perhaps resemble an expansion of some other known function.After some ugly algebra, this is something like
Nothing jumps out to me, and I'm not sure this approach is promising. Any ideas?
I've massaged it some more and found that it can be written as
Where C is a function of a,b,k,n, which I've yet to deduce...