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A p-adic analogue of a formula of Ramanujan

Number Theory 2021-02-03 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

During his lifetime, Ramanujan provided many formulae relating binomial sums to special values of the Gamma function. Based on numerical computations, Van Hamme recently conjectured pp-adic analogues to such formulae. Using a combination of ordinary and Gaussian hypergeometric series, we prove one of these conjectures.

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@article{arxiv.0708.3307,
  title  = {A p-adic analogue of a formula of Ramanujan},
  author = {Dermot McCarthy and Robert Osburn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.3307},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages