- Title
- Congruences for Stirling numbers of the second kind
- Creator
- Chan, O-Yeat; Manna, Dante
- Relation
- Contemporary Mathematics Vol. 517, Gems in Experimental Mathematics, p. 97-111
- Relation
- http://www.ams.org/books/conm/517
- Publisher
- American Mathematical Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- We characterize the Stirling numbers of the second kind S(n, k) modulo prime powers in terms of binomial coefficients. Our results are surprisingly simple when k is a multiple of the modulus.
- Subject
- Stirling number; valuation; binomial coefficient
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932950
- Identifier
- uon:11504
- Identifier
- ISSN:0271-4132
- Language
- eng
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