Spivey-type recurrence relation for fully degenerate Bell polynomials

Abstract

Spivey's combinatorial method revealed an important identity for Bell numbers, involving Stirling numbers of the second kind. This paper extends his work by deriving Spivey-type recurrence relations for fully degenerate Bell polynomials and degenerate Fubini polynomials. Our derivation uses degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind and two-variable degenerate Fubini polynomials of order a.

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