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In this paper, we study some combinations of the degenerate and incomplete Stirling numbers of the second kind. We use a combinatorial approach and provide some asymptotic results.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Beáta Bényi , Sithembele Nkonkobe

Integer partitions express the different ways that a positive integer may be written as a sum of positive integers. Here we explore the analytic properties of a new polynomial $f_\lambda(x)$ that we call the partition polynomial for the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Madeline Locus Dawsey , Tyler Russell , Dannie Urban

Using Reiner's definition of Stirling numbers of the second kind in types $B$ and $D$, we generalize two well-known identities concerning the classical Stirling numbers of the second kind. The first identity relates them with Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Eli Bagno , Riccardo Biagioli , David Garber

For any positive integer r, the r-associated Stirling number of the second kind enumerates the number of partitions of the set{1,2,3,...,n} into k non-empty disjoint subsets such that each subset contains at least r elements. We introduce…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Taekyun Kim , Dae San Kim

Associated to each complex-valued random variable satisfying appropriate integrability conditions, we introduce a different generalization of the Stirling numbers of the second kind. Various equivalent definitions are provided. Attention,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-20 José A. Adell

We calculate the formal analytic expansions of certain formal translations in a space of formal iterated logarithmic and exponential variables. The results show how the algebraic structure naturally involves the Stirling numbers of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-26 Thomas J. Robinson

By using the associated and restricted Stirling numbers of the second kind, we give some generalizations of the poly-Bernoulli numbers. We also study their arithmetical and combinatorial properties. As an application, at the end of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Takao Komatsu , Kalman Liptai , István Mező

Several new estimates for the 2-adic valuations of Stirling numbers of the second kind are proved. These estimates, together with criteria for when they are sharp, lead to improvements in several known theorems and their proofs, as well as…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Arnold Adelberg

This paper is devoted to establishing several new formulas relating Bernoulli and Stirling numbers of both kinds.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Bakir Farhi

In this paper, we investigate fractional B splines and their connections with Fourier analysis, and establish connections with generalized Stirling-type numbers and distribution theory. Employing a generating function approach inspired by…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Damla Gun , Peter Massopust , Yilmaz Simsek

Let Y be a random variable whose moment generating function exists in a neighborhood of the origin. Recently, probabilistic Stirling numbers of the first kind and of the second kind associated with Y have been introduced. However,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Dae San Kim , Taekyun Kim

In this paper, we derive some identities and recurrence relations for the degenerate Stirling numbers of the first kind and of the second kind which are degenerate versions of the ordinary Stirling numbers of the first kind and of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Taekyun Kim , Dae san Kim

In the paper, the author finds an explicit formula for computing Bernoulli numbers of the second kind in terms of Stirling numbers of the first kind.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Feng Qi

It is shown in this note that non-central Stirling numbers s(n,k,a) of the first kind naturally appear in the expansion of derivatives of the product of a power function and a logarithn function. We first obtain a recurrence relation for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-01-20 Milan Janjic

We introduce a new sequence of unsigned degenerate Stirling numbers of the first kind. Following the work of Adell-Lekuona, who represented unsigned Stirling numbers of the first kind as multiples of the expectations of specific random…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Taekyun Kim , Dae san Kim , Kyo-Shin Hwang , Dmitry V. Dolgy

Exponentiating the hypergeometric series gives a recursion relation for integer sequences which are generalizations of conventional Bell numbers. The corresponding associated Stirling numbers of the second kind are also generated and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. -M. Sixdeniers , K. A. Penson , A. I. Solomon

An extension of the theory of the Iterated Logarithmic Algebra gives the logarithmic analog of a Sheffer or Appell sequence of polynomials. This leads to several examples including Stirling's formula and a logarithmic version of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Daniel E. Loeb

A conjectured relation between Ramanujan's asymptotic approximations to the exponential function and the exponential integral is established. The proof involves Stirling numbers, second-order Eulerian numbers, modifications of both of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Cormac O'Sullivan

Two doubly indexed families of homogeneous and isobaric polynomials in several indeterminates are considered: the (partial) exponential Bell polynomials $B_{n,k}$ and a new family $S_{n,k}$ such that $X_1^{-(2n-1)}S_{n,k}$ and $B_{n,k}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Alfred Schreiber

By means of the generating function method, a linear recurrence relation is explicitly resolved. The solution is expressed in terms of the Stirling numbers of both the first and the second kind. Two remarkable pairs of combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Nadia Na Li , Wenchang Chu