Probabilistic multi-Stirling numbers of the second kind and probabilistic multi-Lah numbers

Abstract: Assume that the moment generating function of the random vari able Y exists in a neighborhood of the origin. We introduce the probabilistic multi-Stirling numbers of the second kind associated with Y and the proba bilistic multi-Lah numbers associated with Y, both of indices (k1,k2,...,kr), by means of the multiple logarithm. Those numbers are respectively probabilistic extensions of the multi-Stirling numbers of the second kind and the multi-Lah numbers which, for (k1,k2,...,kr) = (1,1,...,1), boil down respectively to the Stirling numbers of the second and the unsigned Lah numbers. The aim of this paper is to study some properties, related identities, recurrence relations and explicit expressions of those probabilistic extension numbers in connection with several other special numbers