A note on numerators of Bernoulli numbers

Thakur, Dinesh

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11234-1

A note on numerators of Bernoulli numbers
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 140 (2012), 3673-3676

Abstract:

The object of this short note is to give some observations on Bernoulli numbers and their function field analogs and to point out ‘known’ counterexamples to a conjecture of Chowla.

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