Arithmetic properties of Bell numbers to a composite modulus I

DOI10.4064/aa-35-1-1-16zbMath0408.10006OpenAlexW856573961MaRDI QIDQ4195018

N. M. Stephens, W. F. Lunnon, Peter A. B. Pleasants

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/205621

zbMATH Keywords

finite fieldsprimitive rootsBell numbersperiod

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Recurrences (11B37) Finite fields and commutative rings (number-theoretic aspects) (11T99) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39)

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