Combinatorics of poly-Bernoulli numbers
Combinatorics
2015-10-21 v1
Abstract
The poly-Bernoulli numbers --- a natural generalization of classical Bernoulli numbers () --- were introduced by Kaneko in 1997. When the parameter is negative then is a nonnegative number. Brewbaker was the first to give combinatorial interpretation of these numbers. He proved that counts the so called lonesum matrices of size . Several other interpretations were pointed out. We survey these and give new ones. Our new interpretation, for example, gives a transparent, combinatorial explanation of Kaneko's recursive formula for poly-Bernoulli numbers
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.05765,
title = {Combinatorics of poly-Bernoulli numbers},
author = {Beáta Bényi and Peter Hajnal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.05765},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
20 pages, to appear in Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica