Vol. 35 (2025)
Articles

The valuations of power sums

T. Amdeberhan
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
Victor H. Moll
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
Vaishavi Sharma
Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43201
Christophe Vignat
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118

Publicado 2024-11-23

Palabras clave

  • valuatios,
  • Bernoulli numbers,
  • power sums

Resumen

The \(p-adic\) valuation of the sequence formed by power sums is described completely for the primes \(p = 2, 3\) and \(5\) A general pattern arising from these explorations is conjectured.