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On a supercongruence conjecture of Z.-W. Sun

Number Theory 2022-05-24 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper, we partly prove a supercongruence conjectured by Z.-W. Sun in 2013. Let pp be an odd prime and let aZ+a\in\mathbb{Z}^{+}. Then if p1(mod3)p\equiv1\pmod3, we have \begin{align*} \sum_{k=0}^{\lfloor\frac{5}6p^a\rfloor}\frac{\binom{2k}k}{16^k}\equiv\left(\frac{3}{p^a}\right)\pmod{p^2}, \end{align*} where ()\left(\frac{\cdot}{\cdot}\right) is the Jacobi symbol.

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@article{arxiv.2003.14221,
  title  = {On a supercongruence conjecture of Z.-W. Sun},
  author = {Guo-Shuai Mao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.14221},
  year   = {2022}
}

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