{ "id": "2407.18355", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-07-25T19:41:28.000Z", "updated": "2024-07-25T19:41:28.000Z", "title": "Connecting the Stirling numbers and $k$-bonacci sums", "authors": [ "Muhammad Adam Dombrowski" ], "comment": "9 pages, 1 figure", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "This paper proves why the Stirling numbers show up in a experimentally determined formula for the $k$-bonaccis. We develop a bijection between a previously determined summation formula for $k$-bonaccis and an experimentally determined formula, proven algebraically.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-07-25T19:41:28.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "stirling numbers", "bonacci sums", "experimentally determined formula", "connecting" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 9, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }