2-adic partial Stirling functions and their zeros

Abstract: Let

. This extends to a continuous function on the 2-adic integers, the

n

th 2-adic partial Stirling function. We show that

(- 1)^{n + 1} P_{n}

is the only 2-adically continuous approximation to

S (x, n)

, the Stirling number of the second kind. We present extensive information about the zeros of

P_{n}

, for which there are many interesting patterns. We prove that if

e g e 2

and

2^{e} + 1 l e n l e 2^{e} + 4

, then

P_{n}

has exactly

2^{e - 1}

zeros, one in each mod

2^{e - 1}

congruence. We study the relationship between the zeros of

P_{2^{e} + D e l t a}

and

P_{D} e l t a

, for

1 l e D e l t a l e 2^{e}

, and the convergence of

P_{2^{e} + D e l t a} (x)

as

e o i n f t y

.

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