A supercongruence related to Whipple's ${}_5F_4$ formula and Dwork's dash operation
Number Theory
2026-02-16 v1
Abstract
We establish a parametric supercongruence related to Whipple's formula and Dwork's dash operation. As a typical consequence, we obtain the following result: for any prime and odd integer , where is the Pochhammer symbol and is the -th harmonic number of order . This confirms a conjecture of Guo and Zhao [Forum Math. 38 (2026), 1099-1109]. Our proof rely on a new parametric WZ pair which allows us to transform the original sum to a computable form in the sense of congruence. Another essential ingredient of our proof involves the properties of Dwork's dash operation.
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@article{arxiv.2602.13001,
title = {A supercongruence related to Whipple's ${}_5F_4$ formula and Dwork's dash operation},
author = {Chen Wang and He-Xia Ni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13001},
year = {2026}
}
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16 pages