Multi-Stirling numbers of the second kind

Abstract: The multi-Stirling numbers of the second kind, the unsigned multi-Stirling numbers of the first kind, the multi-Lah numbers and the multi-Bernoulli numbers are all defined with the help of the multiple logarithm, and generalize respectively the Stirling numbers of the second kind, the unsigned Stirling numbers of the first kind, the unsigned Lah numbers and the higher-order Bernoulli numbers . The aim of this paper is to introduce the multi-Stirling numbers of the second kind and to find several identities involving those four numbers defined by means of the multiple logarithm and some other special numbers.