New congruences involving harmonic numbers
Number Theory
2024-01-11 v5
Abstract
Let be a prime. For any -adic integer , we determine modulo , where and . In particular, we show that \begin{gather*}\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\binom{-a}k\binom{a-1}kH_k\equiv(-1)^{\langle a\rangle_p}\,2\left(B_{p-1}(a)-B_{p-1}\right)\pmod p, \\\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\binom{-a}k\binom{a-1}kH_k^{(2)}\equiv -E_{p-3}(a)\pmod p, \\(2a-1)\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\binom{-a}k\binom{a-1}k\frac{H_k^{(2)}}{2k+1}\equiv B_{p-2}(a)\pmod p, \end{gather*} where stands for the least nonnegative integer with , and and denote the Bernoulli polynomial of degree and the Euler polynomial of degree respectively. We also pose some new conjectures on congruences.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.8465,
title = {New congruences involving harmonic numbers},
author = {Zhi-Wei Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.8465},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
32 pages, final published version