Wilf's Conjecture

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.123.6.557MaRDI QIDQ6436509arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Valerio de Angelis, Dominic Marcello

Publication date 13 May 2023

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.123.6.557

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Bell and Stirling numbers (11B73)

arXiv classification

math.NT

Abstract: In a Note in this Monthly, Klazar raised the question of whether the alternating sum of the Stirling numbers of the second kind $B^{p}m(n)=su{m}_{k=0}^n(-1{)}^{k}S(n,k)$ is ever zero for $neq2$. In this article, we present an exposition of the history of this problem, and an economical account of a recent proof that there is at most one $neq2$ for which $B^{p}m(n)=0$.

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