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On some divisibility properties of binomial sums

Combinatorics 2016-11-07 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we consider two particular binomial sums \begin{align*} \sum_{k=0}^{n-1}(20k^2+8k+1){\binom{2k}{k}}^5 (-4096)^{n-k-1} \end{align*} and \begin{align*} \sum_{k=0}^{n-1}(120k^2+34k+3){\binom{2k}{k}}^4\binom{4k}{2k} 65536^{n-k-1}, \end{align*} which are inspired by two series for 1π2\frac{1}{\pi^2} obtained by Guillera. We consider their divisibility properties and prove that they are divisible by 2n2(2nn)22n^2 \binom{2n}{n}^2 for all integer n2n\geq 2. These divisibility properties are stronger than those divisibility results found by He, who proved the above two sums are divisible by 2n(2nn)2n \binom{2n}{n} with the WZ-method.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01358,
  title  = {On some divisibility properties of binomial sums},
  author = {Brian Y. Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01358},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

12 pages; to appear in IJNT; comments are welcome from everyone

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