The eventual structure of non-terminal residue classes for Stirling-number valuations
The eventual structure of non-terminal residue classes for Stirling-number valuations
Let denote the number of partitions of an -element set into exactly nonempty subsets, and let denote the -adic valuation. For fixed , consider the residue classes
A class is non-terminal if is not constant on it, and terminal otherwise; the parameter is the level of the class. The eventual non-terminal-class conjecture. For every fixed , there exist a level and an integer such that, for every , the number of non-terminal classes of level is , independently of . Moreover, for each , every one of these non-terminal classes splits into one terminal subclass and one non-terminal subclass, with the latter generating the set of classes at the next level.
The conjecture proposes an eventual stable branching pattern for the -adic valuations of Stirling numbers when is fixed. The source gives the explicit valuations for but does not provide a resolution of the general assertion.
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Primary source
Shubham, “The p-adic valuation of the general degree-2 and degree-3 polynomial in 2 variables”, arXiv:2407.07103 (2024).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2203.02197.
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