Several identities involving the falling and rising factorials and the Cauchy, Lah, and Stirling numbers

Feng Qi; Xiao-Ting Shi; Fang-Fang Liu

doi:10.1515/ausm-2016-0019

Abstract

In the paper, the authors find several identities, including a new recurrence relation for the Stirling numbers of the first kind, involving the falling and rising factorials and the Cauchy, Lah, and Stirling numbers.

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Several identities involving the falling and rising factorials and the Cauchy, Lah, and Stirling numbers

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