A matrix generalization of a theorem of Fine
Number Theory
2023-09-04 v2 Discrete Mathematics
Combinatorics
Abstract
In 1947 Nathan Fine gave a beautiful product for the number of binomial coefficients , for in the range , that are not divisible by . We give a matrix product that generalizes Fine's formula, simultaneously counting binomial coefficients with -adic valuation for each . For each this information is naturally encoded in a polynomial generating function, and the sequence of these polynomials is -regular in the sense of Allouche and Shallit. We also give a further generalization to multinomial coefficients.
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@article{arxiv.1704.05872,
title = {A matrix generalization of a theorem of Fine},
author = {Eric Rowland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.05872},
year = {2023}
}
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9 pages; publication version