scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1530246

Authors B. A. Bondarenko, R. B. Tulyaganov, Valery V. Karachik

Publication date 14 November 2000

arithmetic triangles distribution divisibility Eulerian numbers fractals prime number Stirling numbers

Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials (11B68) Bell and Stirling numbers (11B73)

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A large number of works have been devoted to the study of the divisibility of binomial, trinomial, and multinomial coefficients by a prime \(p\) and its powers for the Pascal triangle and pyramid. Fundamental in these investigations are theorems of Legendre, Lucas, and Kummer, and other important results of L.~Carlitz, P.~Erdős, H.~Harborth, F.~Howard, D.~Singmaster and others. Extensive references of the works devoted to the divisibility and distribution of the combinatorial numbers can be found in the book by \textit{B. A. Bondarenko} [Generalized Pascal triangles and pyramids, their fractals, graphs, and applications. USA, Santa Clara: Fibonacci Association (1993; Zbl 0792.05001)]. The present paper is devoted to an extensive discussion of the divisibility of Eulerian and Stirling numbers by a prime \(p\), and to investigations of the distribution of these coefficients with respect to the modulus \(p\) in the corresponding arithmetical triangles. The elements of Eulerian and Stirling triangles, reduced with respect to some modulus, in particular a prime modulus \(p\), from various triangular geometric lattices -- in fact, fractals -- are investigated, too.

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