A refinement of a congruence result by van Hamme and Mortenson
Number Theory
2014-02-19 v6 Combinatorics
Abstract
Let be an odd prime. In 2008 E. Mortenson proved van Hamme's following conjecture: In this paper we show further that \begin{align*}\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}(4k+1)\binom{-1/2}k^3\equiv &\sum_{k=0}^{(p-1)/2}(4k+1)\binom{-1/2}k^3 \\\equiv & (-1)^{(p-1)/2}p+p^3E_{p-3} \pmod{p^4},\end{align*}where are Euler numbers. We also prove that if then
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@article{arxiv.1011.1902,
title = {A refinement of a congruence result by van Hamme and Mortenson},
author = {Zhi-Wei Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1902},
year = {2014}
}
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