An extension of Gauss congruences for Ap\'ery numbers
Number Theory
2024-04-26 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
Osburn, Sahu and Straub introduced the numbers: \begin{align*} A_n^{(r,s,t)}=\sum_{k=0}^n{n\choose k}^r{n+k\choose k}^s{2k\choose n}^t, \end{align*} for non-negative integers with , which includes two kinds of Ap\'ery numbers and four kinds of Ap\'ery-like numbers as special cases, and showed that the numbers satisfy the Gauss congruences of order . We establish an extension of Osburn--Sahu--Straub congruence through Bernoulli numbers, which is one step deep congruence of the Gauss congruence for .
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@article{arxiv.2404.16636,
title = {An extension of Gauss congruences for Ap\'ery numbers},
author = {Ji-Cai Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.16636},
year = {2024}
}
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26 pages