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A Family of Supercongruences Involving Multiple Harmonic Sums

Number Theory 2021-01-22 v1

Abstract

In recent years, the congruence i+j+k=pi,j,k>01ijk2Bp3(modp), \sum_{\substack{i+j+k=p\\ i,j,k>0}} \frac1{ijk} \equiv -2 B_{p-3} \pmod{p}, first discovered by the last author have been generalized by either increasing the number of indices and considering the corresponding supercongruences, or by considering the alternating version of multiple harmonic sums. In this paper, we prove a family of similar supercongruences modulo prime powers prp^r with the indexes summing up to mprmp^r where mm is coprime to pp, where all the indexes are also coprime to pp.

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@article{arxiv.2101.08599,
  title  = {A Family of Supercongruences Involving Multiple Harmonic Sums},
  author = {Megan McCoy and Kevin Thielen and Liuquan Wang and Jianqiang Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.08599},
  year   = {2021}
}

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16 pages, final version for publication