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A New Super Congruence Involving Multiple Harmonic Sums

Number Theory 2014-10-14 v2

Abstract

Let Pn{\mathcal{P}_{n}} denote the set of positive integers which are prime to nn. Let BnB_{n} be the nn-th Bernoulli number. For any prime p5p\ge 5 and r2r\ge 2, we prove that \begin{equation} \sum\limits_{\begin{smallmatrix} {{l}_{1}}+{{l}_{2}}+\cdots +{{l}_{5}}={{p}^{r}} {{l}_{1}},\cdots ,{{l}_{5}}\in {\mathcal{P}_{p}} \end{smallmatrix}}{\frac{1}{{{l}_{1}}{{l}_{2}}{{l}_{3}}{{l}_{4}}{{l}_{5}}}}\equiv -\frac{5!}{6}{{B}_{p-5}}{{p}^{r-1}} \pmod{{{p}^{r}}}. \end{equation} This gives an extension of a family of super congruences found by Wang, Cai and Zhao.

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@article{arxiv.1410.1712,
  title  = {A New Super Congruence Involving Multiple Harmonic Sums},
  author = {Liuquan Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1712},
  year   = {2014}
}

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