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New Congruences on Multiple Harmonic Sums and Bernoulli Numbers

Number Theory 2016-01-28 v4

Abstract

Let Pn{\mathcal{P}_{n}} denote the set of positive integers which are prime to nn. Let BnB_{n} be the nn-th Bernoulli number. For any prime p11p \ge 11 and integer r2r\ge 2, we prove that l1+l2++l6=prl1,,l6Pp1l1l2l3l4l5l65!18pr1Bp32(modpr). \sum\limits_{\begin{smallmatrix} {{l}_{1}}+{{l}_{2}}+\cdots +{{l}_{6}}={{p}^{r}} {{l}_{1}},\cdots ,{{l}_{6}}\in {\mathcal{P}_{p}} \end{smallmatrix}}{\frac{1}{{{l}_{1}}{{l}_{2}}{{l}_{3}}{{l}_{4}}{{l}_{5}}{l}_{6}}}\equiv - \frac{{5!}}{18}p^{r-1}B_{p-3}^{2} \pmod{{{p}^{r}}}. This extends a family of curious congruences. We also obtain other interesting congruences involving multiple harmonic sums and Bernoulli numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1504.03227,
  title  = {New Congruences on Multiple Harmonic Sums and Bernoulli Numbers},
  author = {Liuquan Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.03227},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

14 pages. This version simplifies the previous version. Moreover, two important theorems and a conjecture were added

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