On irregular prime power divisors of the Bernoulli numbers

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-06-01887-4zbMATH Open1183.11012arXivmath/0409223MaRDI QIDQ3420439FDOQ3420439

Bernd C. Kellner

Publication date: 2 February 2007

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $B_n$ ($n=0,1,2,\mathrm{...}$) denote the usual $n$-th Bernoulli number. Let $l$ be a positive even integer where $l=12$ or $lgeq16$. It is well known that the numerator of the reduced quotient $|B_l/l|$ is a product of powers of irregular primes. Let $(p,l)$ be an irregular pair with $B_l/lotequiv{B}_{l+p-1}/(l+p-1)modp{p}^2$. We show that for every $rgeq1$ the congruence $B_{m_r}/m_{r}equiv0modp{p}^r$ has a unique solution $m_r$ where $m_{r}equivlmodpp-1$ and $lleq{m}_r<(p-1)p^{r-1}$. The sequence $(m_r{)}_{rgeq1}$ defines a $p$-adic integer $ch{i}_{(p,l)}$ which is a zero of a certain $p$-adic zeta function $zet{a}_{p,l}$ originally defined by T. Kubota and H. W. Leopoldt. We show some properties of these functions and give some applications. Subsequently we give several computations of the (truncated) $p$-adic expansion of $ch{i}_{(p,l)}$ for irregular pairs $(p,l)$ with $p$ below 1000.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409223

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann zeta functionBernoulli numberKummer congruences\(p\)-adic zeta functionirregular pair of higher orderirregular prime power

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials (11B68) (zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) Iwasawa theory (11R23) Zeta functions and (L)-functions of number fields (11R42) Calculation of integer sequences (11Y55)

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