• Title of article

    Adams theorem on Bernoulli numbers revisited

  • Author/Authors

    R. Thangadurai، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
  • Pages
    9
  • From page
    169
  • To page
    177
  • Abstract
    If we denote Bn to be nth Bernoulli number, then the classical result of Adams (J. Reine Angew. Math. 85 (1878) 269) says that pℓn and (p−1) n, then pℓBn where p is any odd prime p>3. We conjecture that if (p−1) n, pℓn and pℓ+1 n for any odd prime p>3, then the exact power of p dividing Bn is either ℓ or ℓ+1. The main purpose of this article is to prove that this conjecture is equivalent to two other unproven hypotheses involving Bernoulli numbers and to provide a positive answer to this conjecture for infinitely many n.
  • Keywords
    Bernoulli numbers , Class number of cyclotomic fields
  • Journal title
    Journal of Number Theory
  • Serial Year
    2004
  • Journal title
    Journal of Number Theory
  • Record number

    715587