Congruence Classes of 2-adic Valuations of Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind
Curtis Bennett and Edward Mosteig
Department of Mathematics
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA 90045
USA
Abstract:
We analyze congruence classes of S(n,k),
the Stirling numbers of the
second kind, modulo powers of 2. This analysis provides insight into a
conjecture posed by Amdeberhan, Manna and Moll, which those authors
established for k at most 5. We provide a framework that can be used to
justify the conjecture by computational means, which we then complete
for values of k between 5 and 20.
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Received April 27 2012;
revised version received February 17 2013.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, March 2 2013.
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