Poly-falling factorial sequences and poly-rising factorial sequences

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce generalizations of rising factorials and falling factorials, respectively, and study their relations with the well-known Stirling numbers, Lah numbers, and so on. The first stage is to define poly-falling factorial sequences in terms of the polyexponential functions, reducing them to falling factorials if k=1k=1, necessitating a demonstration of the relations: between poly-falling factorial sequences and the Stirling numbers of the first and second kind, respectively; between poly-falling factorial sequences and the poly-Bell polynomials; between poly-falling factorial sequences and the poly-Bernoulli numbers; between poly-falling factorial sequences and poly-Genocchi numbers; and recurrence formula of these sequences. The later part of the paper deals with poly-rising factorial sequences in terms of the polyexponential functions, reducing them to rising factorial if k=1k=1. We study some relations: between poly-falling factorial sequences and poly-rising factorial sequences; between poly-rising factorial sequences and the Stirling numbers of the first kind and the power of xx; and between poly-rising factorial sequences and Lah numbers and the poly-falling factorial sequences. We also derive recurrence formula of these sequences and reciprocal formula of the poly-falling factorial sequences.

Keywords

• falling factorials
• rising factorials
• modified polyexponential functions
• stirling numbers of the first and second kind
• poly-bernoulli polynomials
• poly-genocchi polynomials
• 11b73
• 11b83
• 05a19