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On a diophantine problem concerning Stirling numbers (English)
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13 October 1994
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The Stirling number of the second kind \(S_ k^ n\) is defined to be the number of partitions of the set \(\{1,\dots, n\}\) into \(k\) non-empty subsets. Let \(b>a>1\) be rational integers. Consider the equation \(S_ a^ x= S_ b^ y\) to be solved in integers \(x\), \(y\) with \(x>a\) and \(y>b\). In the note under review it is proved, using the theory of linear forms in logarithms, that all the solutions of the above equation satisfy \[ \max \{x,y\}< C b(\log b)^ 3 \log (b!/a!) \log a, \] where \(C\) is an effectively computable absolute constant.
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Stirling numbers
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linear forms in logarithms
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