Bell Polynomials - Complete Bell Polynomials

Complete Bell Polynomials

The sum

is sometimes called the nth complete Bell polynomial. In order to contrast them with complete Bell polynomials, the polynomials Bn, k defined above are sometimes called "partial" Bell polynomials.

The complete Bell polynomials satisfy the following identity

B_n(x_1,\dots,x_n) = \det\begin{bmatrix}x_1 & {n-1 \choose 1} x_2 & {n-1 \choose 2}x_3 & {n-1 \choose 3} x_4 & {n-1 \choose 4} x_5 & \cdots & \cdots & x_n \\ \\ -1 & x_1 & {n-2 \choose 1} x_2 & {n-2 \choose 2} x_3 & {n-2 \choose 3} x_4 & \cdots & \cdots & x_{n-1} \\ \\ 0 & -1 & x_1 & {n-3 \choose 1} x_2 & {n-3 \choose 2} x_3 & \cdots & \cdots & x_{n-2} \\ \\ 0 & 0 & -1 & x_1 & {n-4 \choose 1} x_2 & \cdots & \cdots & x_{n-3} \\ \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & -1 & x_1 & \cdots & \cdots & x_{n-4} \\ \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & -1 & \cdots & \cdots & x_{n-5} \\ \\ \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \ddots & \ddots & \vdots \\ \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & \cdots & -1 & x_1 \end{bmatrix}.

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