A New Triangle Generation of Some Generalized Genocchi Numbers

Authors

  • Feryal Alayont Grand Valley State University
  • Stephanie Loewen Grand Valley State University
  • Vasily Zadorozhnyy Grand Valley State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33043/965597rq

Abstract

The two-dimensional rook theory can be generalized to three and higher dimensions by assuming that rooks attack along hyperplanes. Using this generalization, Alayont and Krzywonos defined two separate families of boards in three and higher dimensions generalizing the two-dimensional triangular boards whose rook numbers correspond to generalizations of Stirling numbers of the second kind and Genocchi numbers. This combinatorial interpretation of the Genocchi numbers was shown to provide a new triangle generation of the Genocchi numbers. In this paper, we prove similar triangle generations for the third and fourth generalized Genocchi numbers using rook numbers of boards in four and five dimensions.

Author Biographies

Feryal Alayont, Grand Valley State University

Feryal Alayont is a professor of mathematics at Grand Valley State University. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include combinatorics and the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Stephanie Loewen, Grand Valley State University

Stephanie Loewen received her B.S. in mathematics from Grand Valley State University, where this research was conducted, and her M.S. in Data Science from the University of Notre Dame. Currently Stephanie is employed at Ground Vehicle Systems Center as a mathematician, where she primarily performs data analysis.

Vasily Zadorozhnyy, Grand Valley State University

Vasily Zadorozhnyy worked on this project when he was a mathematics undergraduate student at the Grand Valley State University during the Fall 2016 semester. Later, Vasily received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Kentucky and currently is an Advanced Computer Scientist in Machine and Deep Learning at SRI International in Princeton, NJ.

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Published

2025-03-28

How to Cite

Alayont, F., Loewen, S., & Zadorozhnyy, V. (2025). A New Triangle Generation of Some Generalized Genocchi Numbers. Mathematics Exchange, 18(1), 51–64. https://doi.org/10.33043/965597rq