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W. Lang: Preprints (after 1995)



2023

  1. "Improved Formula for the Multi-Section of the Linear Three-Term Recurrence Sequence", with Gary Detlefs, April 2023

    paper (pdf), related among others to   OEIS A034807. arXiv:2304.12937 [math.CO].

  2. "On a Certain Family of Sidi Polynomials", May 2023

    paper (pdf), related among others to   OEIS A075513.

  3. "Cantor's List of Real Algebraic Numbers of Heights 1 to 7", July 2023

    paper (pdf), arXiv:2307.10645 [math.NT]/, related among others to   OEIS A364312.
  4. "Upper Diagonal Matrix for Flag Signals", September 2023

    paper (pdf).
  5. "Four Sequences of Length 28 and the Gregorian Calendar", October 2023

    paper (pdf), arXiv:2311.13646 [math.HO]/.


2019

  1. "A list of representative simple difference sets of the Singer type for small orders m", July 2020

    paper (pdf), related among others to   OEIS A333852.

  2. "On the Equivalence of Three Complete Cyclic Systems of Integers", August 2020

    paper (pdf), related to   OEIS A334430, arXiv:2008.04300 [math.NT] .



2019

  1. "Cycles of reduced Pell forms, general Pell equations and Pell graphs", April 2019

    paper (pdf), related among others to   OEIS A324251.

  2. "Collatz Trees from Vaillant-Delarue Maps", May 2019

    paper (pdf) related to:   OEIS A324038

  3. "Memoir on Napoléon's Theorem", October 2019

    \ paper (pdf)



2018

  1. "Notes on the Discrete Theodorus Spiral", January 2018

    paper (pdf), related among others to   OEIS A296181.

  2. "On a Conformal Mapping of Regular Hexagons and the Spiral of its Centers", March 2018

    paper (pdf), related among others to   OEIS A300068.

  3. "A Note on Markoff Forms Determining Quadratic Irrationals with Purely Periodic Continued Fractions", July 2018

    paper (pdf), related among others to   OEIS A305310.

  4. "The Tribonacci and ABC Representations of Numbers are Equivalent", October 2018, revised September 2020

    paper (pdf), arXiv:1810.09787 [math.NT] .

  5. "On the Generating Functions of the Boas-Buck Sequences for the Inverse of Riordan and Sheffer Matrices", December 2018

    paper (pdf), related among others to   OEIS A321331



2017

  1. "Table for the multiplicative group of integers modulo A033949 ", March 2017

    Table with notes (pdf), related to   OEIS A282624.

  2. "On Sums of Powers of Arithmetic Progressions, and Generalized Stirling, Eulerian and Bernoulli Numbers ", July 2017

    paper, (pdf) with updates, related, among others, to   OEIS A282629. See also the ArXiv version.

  3. " On Generating Functions of Diagonal Sequences of Sheffer and Riordan Number Triangles ", August 2017

    paper, (pdf) with updates, related, among others, to   OEIS A288875. See also the ArXiv version.

  4. " Note on a- and z-sequences of Sheffer number triangles for certain generalized Lah numbers ", Seprtember 2017

    paper, (pdf), related, among others, to   OEIS A290596.



2016

  1. "Note on a Recurrence for Approximation Sequences of p-adic Square Roots", March 2016

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:    OEIS A268922.

  2. "Expansions for phase space coordinates for the plane pendulum", August 2016

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:     OEIS A273506, OEIS A275790, OEIS A275791.

  3. "Proof of a Conjecture Involving Chebyshev Polynomials", September 2016

    Paper (pdf) related to:     OEIS A057059.

  4. "A Note on the Area Table A249869 for Primitive Pythagorean Triangles ", November 2016

    Paper (pdf) related to:     OEIS A249869



2015

  1. "On lattice point circles for the Archimedean tiling (4,8,8)", January 2015

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:    OEIS A251629.

  2. "Primes +1 (mod 8) or -1 (mod 8) and Sum of Legs of Primitive Pythagorean Triangles", February 2015

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:    OEIS A001132.

  3. "Archimedes's Construction of the Regular Heptagon", March 2015

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:    OEIS A255240.

  4. "A Geometrical Problem of Omar Khayyám and its Cubic", April 2015

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:    OEIS A256099.

  5. With Kival Ngaokrajang: "Certain 'connected' binary bisymmetric n X n matrices", Examples for n = 1, ..., 6, August 2015

    OEIS A261242.

  6. "Proof of a Conjecture Related to the 1-Happy Numbers", September 2015

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:    OEIS A007969.

  7. "Proof of a Theorem Related to the Happy Number Factorization", October 2015

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:    OEIS A007970.



2014

  1. "Collatz' Words, Sequences and Trees", April 2014

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:    OEIS A239126. See also the ArXiv version.
    Published in Journal of Integer Sequences     Vol. 17 (2014) 14.11.7

  2. "Notes on Some Geometric and Algebraic Problems Solved by Origami", September 2014

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:    OEIS A002580. See also the ArXiv version.

  3. "On lattice point circles for the Archimedean tiling (3,4,6,4)", December 2014

    Paper (pdf) related among others to:    OEIS A249870.



2013

  1. `"Albrecht Dürer's approximation of a regular 5-gon", Januar 2013

    Notes (pdf) for OEIS A220674.

  2. `"Periods of Indefinite Binary Quadratic Forms, Continued Fractions and

    the Pell +/-4 Equations", July 2013. January 2023

    Paper (pdf) for OEIS A225953.



2012

  1. "Partition Array for the Number of Representative Necklaces", June 2012

    Notes (pdf) for OEIS A212359 . See also OEIS A212359 .

  2. "Partition Array for the Number of Representative Bracelets", July 2012

    Notes (pdf) for OEIS A213939. See also OEIS A213941.

  3. " Two Lists of Multiset Representatives", July 2012

    Notes (pdf) for OEIS A213938 .

  4. " Application of the Partial Summation Formula to some Sums over Cubes of Fibonacci Numbers", August 2012

    Notes (pdf) for OEIS A215037 .

  5. "The field Q(cos(pi/n)), its Galois group, and length ratios in the regular n-gon ", October 2012, Revised version: March 2011.

    Paper (pdf) related mainly to:    OEIS A187360. See also the ArXiv version.



2011

  1. " A181875/A181876. Minimal Polynomials of cos(2π/n)", January 2011

    Notes for OEIS A181875 (pdf).

  2. " A181872/A181873. Minimal Polynomials of sin(2π/n) ", January 2011

    Notes for OEIS A181872 (pdf).

  3. "Divisor Product Representation for Natural Numbers ", February 2011

    Preprint for OEIS A007955 (pdf).

  4. "Ordinary Generating Functions for Sums of Powers of the First n Positive Integers ", October 2011

    Preprint for OEIS A196837 (pdf).

  5. "Counting Walks on Jacobi Graphs: An Application of Orthogonal Polynomials ", November 2011

    Preprint for OEIS A201198 (pdf).



2010

  1. "Simple proofs of some facts related to the Bell sequence and triangle A007318 (Pascal) and A071919 (enlarged Pascal) ", June 2010

    Notes for OEIS A071919 (pdf).

  2. " A176740: E.g.f. Lagrange Inversion Partition Array ", July 2010

    Notes for OEIS A176740 (pdf).

  3. " Notes on certain inhomogeneous three term recurrences ", September 2010

    Notes for lots of OEIS entries, e.g., A001595 (pdf).

  4. " A181347/A181348. Logarithm of the Fibonacci matrix A037027 ", October 2010

    Notes for OEIS A181347 (pdf).

  5. " A181878, Coefficient array for square of Chebyshev S-polynomials ", December 2010

    Notes for OEIS A181878 (pdf).



2008

" Combinatorial Interpretation of Generalized Stirling Numbers ", October 2008


preprint KA-TP-28-2008 (pdf)    (.ps.gz)
corrected and restyled version, March 2009.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences    Vol. 12 (2009) 09.3.3



2005



2004



2001



2000

Note added, Jan 23, 2008: The generalized Stirling numbers of the second kind S2(k->a+1;n,m->l) appear as P_{n,l}(a) in Example 4, p. 167 of the 1973 paper " Une formule explicite pour les puissances successives de l'opérateur de dérivation de Lie " by Louis Comtet.
Comptes Rendus Acad. Sc. Paris, 276 A (1973) 165-168.
Eqs. (10), (11) and (12) of this ref. give the e.g.f., an explicit formula and the recurrence.

Note added, Jan 31, 2008: The numbers S2(k;n,m) appear already as special case in the article
Leonard Carlitz: On arrays of Numbers. Am. J. Maths. Vol.54 No. 4 (Oct.,1932), pp 739-752
Put μ = 1 and λ = k-1 in the recurrence, eq. (4), for a_{n,s} with s->m.

Note added, Sep 29, 2011: The numbers S2(k;n,m) appear already in the Göttingen 1823 dissertation of H. F. Scherk in sect. 9, III,pp.30-31, as a^m_n (with suppressed k=p dependence)
H. F. Scherk: De evolvenda functione ... disquisitiones nonnullae analyticae , sect. 9, III,pp.29-31.
This reference has been found by M. Mohammad-Noori: Some remarks about the derivation operator and generlized Stirling numbers, 2010 , see ref. [9].
This dissertation is discussed in Appendix A of the paper P. Blasiak and Ph. Flajolet: Combinatorial Models of Creation-Annihilation, 2011 , see ref. [112], and p.76, Proposition A.3. Thanks go to Thomas Copeland for pointing out this paper by e-mail Jun 04 2011.

Note added, Mar 18, 2014: The formula exp(g(x)d/dx)u(x) = u(G^{(-1)}[G(x)+1]) with G(x) = int(1/g(x),x) is credited to C. Graves: A Generalization of the Symbolic Statement of Taylor's Theorem, Proc. of Royal Irish Academy, vol. 5 (1850-1853), pp. 285-287, in the book by Harold T. Davis, The Theory Of Linear Operators, 1936, The Principia Press, p. 13 and p. 588. Thanks go to Thomas Copeland for pointing out the Davis book by e-mail Mar 09 2014.



1998

    "On Polynomials Related to Powers and Derivatives of the Generating Function of Catalan's Numbers" , KA-TP-4-1998, April


    abstract (LaTeX file) abstract (.ps file) title page (.ps file) paper (.ps.gz file, 20 pages, including three tables)
  1. "On Polynomials Related to Powers of the Generating Function of Catalan's Numbers" ,

    revised version, July 1999 paper (.ps.gz file, 10 pages)

    revised version, May 2000 paper (.ps.gz file, 12 pages, including a table)

    Published in The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol.38,5 (2000) pp 408-419

  2. "On Polynomials Related to Derivatives of the Generating Function of Catalan Numbers" ,

    revised version, May 2000 paper (.ps.gz file, 14 pages, including three tables)

    sec. revised version, June 2001 paper (.ps.gz file, 15 pages, including three tables)

    Published in The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol.40,4 (2002) pp 299-313



1997

    "On Sums of Powers of Zeros of Polynomials" , KA-TP-2-1997, May


    abstract (.tex file) abstract (.ps file) title page (.ps file) paper (.ps.gz file, 22 pages, including two tables)
    Published in "Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics", 88 (1998) 237-256
    Sevilla-talk(.ps.gz file, 12 pages)
    See Some links and Scans under the year 2006 for `Albert Girard and the Waring Formula' for historical remarks.



1996

  1. " The Measure of the Orthogonal Polynomials Related to Fibonacci Chains: The Periodic Case" , KA-TP-1-1996, January


    Revised version of an earlier paper with the same title.
    abstract (.ps file) paper (.ps.gz file, 19 pages) figure 1 (.ps.gz) figure 2 (.ps.gz) figure 3 (.ps.gz)
    published in: Journal of Physics A, 29 (1996) 4169-4185
    Corrigendum (.ps.gz) Published in JPhA 30 (1997) 765
  2. "A Fibonacci Fractal: a Bicolored Self-Similar Multifractal " , KA-TP-15-1996, May


    abstract (.ps file) paper (.ps.gz file, 16 pages) figure 1 (.ps.gz) figure 2 (.ps.gz) figure 3 (.ps.gz) figure 4 (.ps.gz) figure 5 (.ps.gz) figure 6 (.ps.gz) Figures 5 and 6 scanned, originals on request
    Published in "Applications of Fibonacci Numbers", Vol.7, pp 221-237
    Edts.: G.E. Bergum, A.N. Philippou, and A.F. Horadam,
    Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1998




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