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Multiple harmonic sums $\mathcal{H}_{\lbrace s\rbrace^{2l}=1;p-1}$ modulo $p^4$ and applications

Number Theory 2024-01-02 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Wilson's theorem for the factorial got generalized to the moduli p2p^2 in 1900 and p3p^3 in 2000 by J.W.L. Glaisher and Z-H. Sun respectively. This paper which studies more generally the multiple harmonic sums H{s}2l=1;p1,22lp1\mathcal{H}_{\lbrace s\rbrace^{2l}=1;p-1},2\leq 2l\leq p-1 modulo p4p^4 in association with the Stirling numbers [      p2s1],22sp1\left[\begin{array}{l}\;\;\;p\\2s-1\end{array}\right], 2\leq 2s\leq p-1 modulo p4p^4 is concerned with establishing a generalization of Wilson, Glaisher and Sun's results to the modulus p4p^4. We also break p-residues of convolutions of three divided Bernoulli numbers of respective orders p1p-1, p3p-3 and p5p-5 into smaller pieces and generalize some results of Sun for some of the generalized harmonic numbers of order p1p-1 modulo p4p^4.

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@article{arxiv.2104.12264,
  title  = {Multiple harmonic sums $\mathcal{H}_{\lbrace s\rbrace^{2l}=1;p-1}$ modulo $p^4$ and applications},
  author = {Claire I. Levaillant},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12264},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

38 pages; 2 appendices; Published version with minor calculation mistake corrected