On irregular prime power divisors of the Bernoulli numbers

Let $B_n$ ($n = 0, 1, 2, ...$) denote the usual $n$-th Bernoulli number. Let $l$ be a positive even integer where $l=12$ or $l \geq 16$. It is well known that the numerator of the reduced quotient $|B_l/l|$ is a product of powers of irregular primes. Let $(p,l)$ be an irregular pair with B_l/l \not\equiv B_{l+p-1}/(l+p-1) \modp{p^2}. We show that for every $r \geq 1$ the congruence B_{m_r}/m_r \equiv 0 \modp{p^r} has a unique solution $m_r$ where m_r \equiv l \modp{p-1} and $l \leq m_r < (p-1)p^{r-1}$. The sequence $(m_r)_{r \geq 1}$ defines a $p$-adic integer $\chi_{(p, l)}$ which is a zero of a certain $p$-adic zeta function $\zeta_{p, l}$ originally defined by T. Kubota and H. W. Leopoldt. We show some properties of these functions and give some applications. Subsequently we give several computations of the (truncated) $p$-adic expansion of $\chi_{(p, l)}$ for irregular pairs $(p,l)$ with $p$ below 1000.Comment: 42 pages; final accepted paper, slightly revised and extended, to appear in Math. Com

Structure of the cuspidal rational torsion subgroup of J_1(p^n)

In this article, we determine the structure of the $p$-primary subgroup of the cuspidal rational torsion subgroup of the Jacobian $J_1(p^n)$ of the modular curve $X_1(p^n)$ for a regular prime $p$.Comment: 26 page

A conjecture about numerators of Bernoulli numbers related to Integer Sequence A092291

In this paper we disprove a conjecture about numerators of divided Bernoulli numbers $B_n/n$ and $B_n/n(n-1)$ which was suggested by Roland Bacher. We give some counterexamples. Finally, we extend the results to the general case.Comment: 11 page

On The Properties Of qq-Bernstein-Type Polynomials

The aim of this paper is to give a new approach to modified $q$-Bernstein polynomials for functions of several variables. By using these polynomials, the recurrence formulas and some new interesting identities related to the second Stirling numbers and generalized Bernoulli polynomials are derived. Moreover, the generating function, interpolation function of these polynomials of several variables and also the derivatives of these polynomials and their generating function are given. Finally, we get new interesting identities of modified $q$-Bernoulli numbers and $q$-Euler numbers applying $p$-adic $q$-integral representation on $\mathbb {Z}_p$ and $p$-adic fermionic $q$-invariant integral on $\mathbb {Z}_p$, respectively, to the inverse of $q$-Bernstein polynomials.Comment: 17 pages, some theorems added to new versio