Stirling numbers revisited

The Generalized Stirling and Bell Numbers Revisited

The generalized Stirling numbers Ss;h(n, k) introduced recently by the authors are shown to be a special case of the three parameter family of generalized Stirling numbers S(n, k;α, β, r) considered by Hsu and Shiue. From this relation, several properties of Ss;h(n, k) and the associated Bell numbers Bs;h(n) and Bell polynomials Bs;h|n(x) are derived. The particular case s = 2 and h = −1 corres...

Stirling Numbers and Generalized Zagreb Indices

We show how generalized Zagreb indices $M_1^k(G)$ can be computed by using a simple graph polynomial and Stirling numbers of the second kind. In that way we explain and clarify the meaning of a triangle of numbers used to establish the same result in an earlier reference.

Multi-Restrained Stirling Numbers

Given positive integers n, k, and m, the (n, k)-th mrestrained Stirling number of the first kind is the number of permutations of an n-set with k disjoint cycles of length ≤ m. Inverting the matrix consisting of the (n, k)-th m-restrained Stirling number of the first kind as the (n+1, k +1)-th entry, the (n, k)-th m-restrained Stirling number of the second kind is defined. In this paper, the mu...

Stirling Numbers and Records

The p-Stirling Numbers

The purpose of this article is to introduce p-Stirling numbers of the first and second kinds.