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The number of nonzero binomial coefficients modulo p^alpha

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arxiv 1001.1783 v3 pith:KCDEB4LK submitted 2010-01-12 math.NT math.CO

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In 1947 Fine obtained an expression for the number of binomial coefficients on row n of Pascal's triangle that are nonzero modulo p. In this paper we use Kummer's theorem to generalize Fine's theorem to prime powers, expressing the number of nonzero binomial coefficients modulo p^alpha as a sum over certain integer partitions. For fixed alpha, this expression can be rewritten to show explicit dependence on the number of occurrences of each subword in the base-p representation of n.

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