Denominators of Bernoulli polynomials
Number Theory
2018-04-25 v1
Abstract
For a positive integer let where runs over all primes and is the sum of the base digits of . For all we prove that is divisible by all "small" primes with at most one exception. We also show that is large, has many prime factors exceeding , with the largest one exceeding . We establish Kellner's conjecture, which says that the number of prime factors exceeding grows asymptotically as for some constant with . Further, we compare the sizes of and , leading to the somewhat surprising conclusion that although tends to infinity with , the inequality is more frequent than its reverse.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1706.09804,
title = {Denominators of Bernoulli polynomials},
author = {Olivier Bordellès and Florian Luca and Pieter Moree and Igor E. Shparlinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09804},
year = {2018}
}
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25 pages