New congruences involving products of two binomial coefficients
Number Theory
2018-09-25 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
Let be a prime and let be a positive integer. We show that if or then with the Jacobi symbol, which confirms a conjecture of Z.-W. Sun. We also establish the following new congruences: \begin{align*}\sum_{k=0}^{(p-1)/2}\frac{\binom{2k}k\binom{3k}k}{27^k}\equiv&\l(\frac p3\r)\frac{2^p+1}3\pmod{p^2}, \\\sum_{k=0}^{(p-1)/2}\frac{\binom{6k}{3k}\binom{3k}k}{(2k+1)432^k}\equiv&\l(\frac p3\r)\frac{3^p+1}4\pmod{p^2}, \\\sum_{k=0}^{(p-1)/2}\frac{\binom{4k}{2k}\binom{2k}k}{(2k+1)64^k}\equiv&\l(\frac{-1}p\r)2^{p-1}\pmod{p^2}. \end{align*} Note that in 2003 Rodriguez-Villeguez posed conjectures on modulo which were later proved.
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@article{arxiv.1601.04782,
title = {New congruences involving products of two binomial coefficients},
author = {Guo-Shuai Mao and Zhi-Wei Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04782},
year = {2018}
}
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