Amdeberhan–Manna–Moll conjecture on 2-adic valuations of Stirling numbers

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Let kN+k\in\mathbb{N}_+. For a prime pp, let vpv_p denote the pp-adic valuation, and for a sequence c(n)c(n) of rational numbers define a congruence class [a]d[a]_d to be constant when vp(c(n))v_p(c(n)) is independent of n[a]dn\in[a]_d, and non-constant otherwise. In particular, apply this to the Stirling numbers of the second kind S(n,k)S(n,k).

Amdeberhan–Manna–Moll conjecture. Fix a number kN+k\in\mathbb{N}_+. Then there exist m0(k)N+m_0(k)\in\mathbb{N}_+ and μ(k)N\mu(k)\in\mathbb{N} such that for any integer mm0(k)m\geq m_0(k) there are exactly μ(k)\mu(k) non-constant congruence classes [a]2m[a]_{2^m} modulo 2m2^m, and each non-constant class modulo 2m2^m splits into one constant and one non-constant class modulo 2m+12^{m+1}.

The conjecture concerns the eventual structure of the 22-adic valuations of Stirling numbers of the second kind. It was proved for k5k\leq 5 by Amdeberhan, Manna and Moll and for 5k205\leq k\leq 20 by Bennett and Mosteig; the supplied status evidence records a proof by Davis in a slightly different form for partial Stirling numbers when k36k\leq 36.

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Primary source

Piotr Miska, “A note on p-adic locally analytic functions with application to behavior of the p-adic valuations of Stirling numbers”, arXiv:1803.04533 (2018).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1204.6361.

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