OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Mezo's abstract: The powers of matrices with Stirling number-coefficients are investigated. It is revealed that the elements of these matrices have a number of properties of the ordinary Stirling numbers. Moreover, "higher order" Bell, Fubini and Eulerian numbers can be defined. Hence we give a new interpretation for E. T. Bell's iterated exponential integers. In addition, it is worth to note that these numbers appear in combinatorial physics, in the problem of the normal ordering of quantum field theoretical operators.
LINKS
E. T. Bell, The iterated exponential integers, Ann. Math. 39(3) (1938), 539-557.
J. Ginsburg, Iterated exponentials, Scripta Math., 11 (1945), 340-353.
Istvan Mezo, On powers of Stirling matrices, arXiv:0812.4047.
K. A. Penson, P. Blasiak, G. Duchamp, A. Horzela, A. I. Solomon, Hierarchical Dobinski-type relations via substitution and the moment problem, J.Phys. A: Math.Gen. 37 3475-3487 (2004).
EXAMPLE
The table on p.4 of Mezo begins:
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B_p,n|n=1|n=2|n=3.|.n=4.|..n=5.|....n=6.|.....n=7.|comment
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p=1..|.1.|.2.|..5.|..15.|...52.|....203.|.....877.|.A000110
p=2..|.1.|.3.|.12.|..60.|..358.|...2471.|...19302.|.A000258
p=3..|.1.|.4.|.22.|.154.|.1304.|..12915.|..146115.|.A000307
p=4..|.1.|.5.|.35.|.315.|.3455.|..44590.|..660665.|.A000357
p=5..|.1.|.6.|.51.|.561.|.7556.|.120196.|.2201856.|.A000405
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MAPLE
g:= proc(a) local b; b:=proc(n) option remember; if n=0 then 1 else (n-1)! *add (a(k)* b(n-k)/ (k-1)!/ (n-k)!, k=1..n) fi end end: B:= (p, n)-> (g@@p)(1)(n):
seq(seq(B(d-n, n), n=1..d-1), d=1..12); # Alois P. Heinz, Feb 02 2009
MATHEMATICA
g[k_] := g[k] = Nest[Function[x, E^x-1], x, k]; a[n_, k_] := SeriesCoefficient[ 1+g[k+1], {x, 0, n}]*n!; Table[a[n, k-n+1], {k, 1, 12}, {n, 1, k}] // Flatten (* Jean-François Alcover, Jan 28 2015 *)
CROSSREFS
From Alois P. Heinz, Feb 02 2009: (Start)
Truncated and reflected version of A144150.
KEYWORD
AUTHOR
Jonathan Vos Post, Dec 22 2008
EXTENSIONS
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STATUS
approved