The numbers ,
where
is a Hermite polynomial, may be called Hermite
numbers. For
,
1, ..., the first few are 1, 0,
, 0, 12, 0,
, 0, 1680, 0, ... (OEIS A067994).
They are given explicitly by
(1)
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(2)
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As a result of the ratio always being divisible by
for
, the only prime Hermite number is
.
The Hermite numbers
are related to the Hermite polynomials
by
(3)
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where ,
and
(4)
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where .