We give explicit non-recursive formulas to compute the Josephus-numbers and and explicit upper and lower bounds for (where ) which differ by (for the bounds are even better). Furthermore we present a new fast algorithm to calculate which is based upon the mentioned bounds.
In the present paper we define the notion of generalized cumulants which gives a universal framework for commutative, free, Boolean and especially, monotone probability theories. The uniqueness of generalized cumulants holds for each independence, and hence, generalized cumulants are equal to the usual cumulants in the commutative, free and Boolean cases. The way we define (generalized) cumulants needs neither partition lattices nor generating functions and then will give a new viewpoint to cumulants....
The paper is devoted to the derivation of the expansion formula for the powers of the Euler Product in terms of partition hook lengths, discovered by Nekrasov and Okounkov in their study of the Seiberg-Witten Theory. We provide a refinement based on a new property of -cores, and give an elementary proof by using the Macdonald identities. We also obtain an extension by adding two more parameters, which appears to be a discrete interpolation between the Macdonald identities and the generating function...