In
mathematics, poly-Bernoulli numbers, denoted as
, were defined by M. Kaneko as
:
where ''Li'' is the
polylogarithm
In mathematics, the polylogarithm (also known as Jonquière's function, for Alfred Jonquière) is a special function of order and argument . Only for special values of does the polylogarithm reduce to an elementary function such as the natu ...
. The
are the usual
Bernoulli number
In mathematics, the Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of rational numbers which occur frequently in analysis. The Bernoulli numbers appear in (and can be defined by) the Taylor series expansions of the tangent and hyperbolic tangent functions ...
s.
Moreover, the Generalization of Poly-Bernoulli numbers with a,b,c parameters defined as follows
:
where ''Li'' is the
polylogarithm
In mathematics, the polylogarithm (also known as Jonquière's function, for Alfred Jonquière) is a special function of order and argument . Only for special values of does the polylogarithm reduce to an elementary function such as the natu ...
.
Kaneko also gave two combinatorial formulas:
:
:
where
is the number of ways to partition a size
set into
non-empty subsets (the
Stirling number of the second kind
In mathematics, particularly in combinatorics, a Stirling number of the second kind (or Stirling partition number) is the number of ways to partition a set of ''n'' objects into ''k'' non-empty subsets and is denoted by S(n,k) or \textstyle \le ...
).
A combinatorial interpretation is that the poly-Bernoulli numbers of negative index enumerate the set of
by
(0,1)-matrices uniquely reconstructible from their row and column sums. Also it is the number of open tours by a biased rook on a board
(see
A329718 for definition).
The Poly-Bernoulli number
satisfies the following asymptotic:
[.]
For a positive integer ''n'' and a prime number ''p'', the poly-Bernoulli numbers satisfy
:
which can be seen as an analog of
Fermat's little theorem. Further, the equation
:
has no solution for integers ''x'', ''y'', ''z'', ''n'' > 2; an analog of