The large-prime valuation conjecture for the repair factor of Stirling sequences

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Let Sk(2)S^{(2)}_k denote the relevant sequence and let Fail(Sk(2)){\rm Fail}(S^{(2)}_k) be its repair factor. For a prime pp, write p|\cdot|_p for the pp-adic absolute value. The large-prime valuation conjecture. If

p[k,k)p\in[\sqrt{k},k)

is a prime, then

Fail(Sk(2))p=1p.|{\rm Fail}(S^{(2)}_k)|_p=\frac{1}{p}.

This is a refinement of the preceding conjecture for primes in the interval [k,k)[\sqrt{k},k), proposed on the basis of numerical computations. A closed formula for the repair factor is not expected to be readily accessible.

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Primary source

Piotr Miska and Tom Ward, “Stirling number and periodic points”, arXiv:2102.07561 (2021).

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