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A supercongruence involving Delannoy numbers and Schr\"oder numbers

Number Theory 2017-08-31 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

The Delannoy numbers and Schr\"oder numbers are given by \begin{align*} D_n=\sum_{k=0}^n{n\choose k}{n+k\choose k}\quad \text{and}\quad S_n=\sum_{k=0}^n{n\choose k}{n+k\choose k}\frac{1}{k+1}, \end{align*} respectively. Let p>3p>3 be a prime. We mainly prove that \begin{align*} \sum_{k=1}^{p-1}D_k S_k\equiv 2p^3B_{p-3}-2pH^{*}_{p-1} \pmod{p^4}, \end{align*} where BnB_n is the nn-th Bernoulli number and those HnH^{*}_n are the alternating harmonic numbers given by Hn=k=1n(1)kkH^{*}_n=\sum_{k=1}^{n}\frac{(-1)^k}{k}. This supercongruence was originally conjectured by Z.-W. Sun in 2011.

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@article{arxiv.1601.03938,
  title  = {A supercongruence involving Delannoy numbers and Schr\"oder numbers},
  author = {Ji-Cai Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.03938},
  year   = {2017}
}

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