Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 16 (2013), Article 13.3.6

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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