Power-sum denominators

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.124.8.695zbMATH Open1391.11052arXiv1705.03857OpenAlexW3099854982WikidataQ58118705 ScholiaQ58118705MaRDI QIDQ4575417FDOQ4575417

Authors: Jonathan Sondow, Bernd C. Kellner 

Publication date: 13 July 2018

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The power sum $1^n+2^n+cdots+x^n$ has been of interest to mathematicians since classical times. Johann Faulhaber, Jacob Bernoulli, and others who followed expressed power sums as polynomials in $x$ of degree $n+1$ with rational coefficients. Here we consider the denominators of these polynomials, and prove some of their properties. A remarkable one is that such a denominator equals $n+1$ times the squarefree product of certain primes $p$ obeying the condition that the sum of the base-$p$ digits of $n+1$ is at least $p$. As an application, we derive a squarefree product formula for the denominators of the Bernoulli polynomials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03857

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zbMATH Keywords

Bernoulli polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials (11B68) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83)

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