A comprehensive study of r-Dowling polynomials

After his extensive study of Whitney numbers, Benoumhani introduced Dowling numbers and polynomials as generalizations of the well-known Bell numbers and polynomials. Later, Cheon and Jung gave the r-generalization of these notions. Based on our recent combinatorial interpretation of r-Whitney numbers, in this paper we derive several new properties of r-Dowling polynomials and we present alternative proofs of some previously known ones