Jacob Katriel
Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics
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Volume 23, 2017, Number 2, Pages 45—47
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Jacob Katriel
Department of Chemistry, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000, Israel
Abstract
A recently reported nice and surprising property of the Lah numbers is shown to hold for q-Lah numbers as well, i.e., they can be obtained by taking successive q-derivatives of expq(1/n), where expq(x) is the q-exponential.
Keywords
- q-Lah numbers
- q-exponential
AMS Classification
- 11B65
- 11B73
References
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Katriel, J. (2017). The q-Lah numbers and the nth q-derivative of expq(1/n). Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, 23(2), 45-47.