A diagonal valuation formula for Stirling numbers of the first kind

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Let pp be an odd prime. Let a,n,ka,n,k be positive integers with 1ap11\le a\le p-1 and 2ka(p1)pn1+12\le k\le a(p-1)p^{n-1}+1. Define ϵk=0\epsilon_k=0 if kk is even and ϵk=1\epsilon_k=1 if kk is odd, and let k\langle k\rangle be the integer satisfying 0kp20\le\langle k\rangle\le p-2 and kk(modp1)k\equiv\langle k\rangle\pmod{p-1}. The diagonal valuation conjecture.

vp(s(apn,apnk))={n+(n+vp(k))ϵk1vp(k2),kϵk(modp1), +(n+vp(k))ϵk+vp(B2k2),k≢ϵk(modp1).v_p\bigl(s(ap^n,ap^n-k)\bigr)=\begin{cases}n+(n+v_p(k))\epsilon_k-1-v_p\left(\left\lfloor\frac{k}{2}\right\rfloor\right),&k\equiv\epsilon_k\pmod{p-1},\ +(n+v_p(k))\epsilon_k+v_p\left(B_{2\left\lfloor\frac{\langle k\rangle}{2}\right\rfloor}\right),&k\not\equiv\epsilon_k\pmod{p-1}. \end{cases}

This is the specialization m=nm=n of the preceding conjecture, so it is merged here as a separately stated restatement only because the paper explicitly labels it as another conjecture; the source gives no resolution beyond the cases noted for the preceding conjecture.

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Shaofang Hong and Min Qiu, “On the p-adic properties of Stirling numbers of the first kind”, arXiv:1908.05594 (2020).

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