Questions tagged [bernoulli-numbers]
The Bernoulli numbers are the rational numbers $B_n$ defined as the coefficients in the expansion $\frac{x}{e^x-1} = \sum_{n \geq 0} B_n \frac{x^n}{n!}$. They vanish when $n$ is odd and greater than $2$. They appear in the values at integers of the Riemann $\zeta$ function. These classical numbers play an important role in number theory and in several other places in mathematics.
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Connection between Bernoulli numbers and Riemann-Siegel theta function?
I have come across a strange approximation for the Riemann-Siegel theta function involving the Bernoulli numbers - namely that
$$\frac{1}{2} \log \left| B_{2 n}\right|\approx \vartheta (2n)\ ,\quad n ...
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divisibility by Bernoulli numbers of discriminant of Hecke algebra over the space of modular forms of level 1
For the space of modular forms and the space of cusp forms (here I only care about the level $1$ case), we have the action by Hecke algebras. Therefore, we can calculate the discriminant of this ...
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Why do $12$ and $120$ occur very often in the denominators of $\zeta(-n)$ for odd $n$?
$\zeta(-n) = - \dfrac{B_{n+1}}{n+1}$
$\zeta(-2n) = 0$
$\zeta(-1) = - \dfrac{1}{12}$
$\zeta(-3) = \dfrac{1}{120}$
$\zeta(-5) = - \dfrac{1}{252}$
$\zeta(-7) = \dfrac{1}{240}$
$\zeta(-9) = - \dfrac{...
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Estimate of the sum Taylor's coefficients
Let
$f(x) = \begin{cases}\ln\frac{x}{e^x-1}, \quad x > 0; \\ 0, \quad\qquad x=0; \\ \ln\frac{x}{e^x-1}, \quad x < 0. \end{cases}$
Power series in 0:
$f(x) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} a_n x^n = -\frac{...
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Probability of the maximum of a throw of an infinite number of $n$-sided dice being $k$ [closed]
Let $X$ be the random variable obtained as the maximum of a throw of $m$ dice (each of which is $n$-sided). In other words, $X = \max\{l_1,\cdots, l_m\}$ where $l_i$ can take any value between $1$ and ...
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computing Bernoulli numbers
Is there a good way to compute the ratio ( B[n] / n! ) that occurs so often in power series coefficients? Good in the sense that you get an answer that does not overflow a double; the largest n such ...
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A conjecture on p-divisibility of Bernoulli numbers
Is anyone aware of the history of the following conjecture on the $p$-divisibility of (the numerators) of Bernoulli numbers?
CONJECTURE: For $p$ an odd prime, and $k$ even with $2 \leq k \leq p-3$, $...
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zeta(3) in Euler's Section 153
Jeffery Lagarias, in his recent article
Euler's constant: Euler's work and modern developments
in the AMS Bulletin, mentions that Euler obtained $\zeta(3)={{2\pi^3 b(3/2)}\over 3}$ for some "Bernoulli ...
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Sign of coefficients
Let $a_0,a_1,\dots$ be the sequence satisfying
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\left(\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_n x^n\right)\left(\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n+1}\right)=1.
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This means that $a_0=1$ and $a_{n+1}=-\sum_{j=0}^n\frac{a_j}...
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Riemann's $\zeta$ function and the uniform distribution on $[-1,0]$
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/64566/riemanns-zeta-function-and-the-uniform-distribution-on-1-0
Stackexchange isn't getting really excited about this, so here it is.
The $n$th cumulant of ...
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