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On the supercongruences involving harmonic numbers of order 2

Number Theory 2022-01-19 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove several supercongruences involving the harmonic number of order two Hn(2):=k=1n1/k2H_n^{(2)}:=\sum_{k=1}^n1/k^2. For example, if p>5p>5 is prime and α\alpha is pp-integral, then we can completely determine k=0p1Hk(2)k(αk)(1αk)andk=0p12Hk(2)k(αk)(1αk) \sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{H_k^{(2)}}{k}\cdot\binom{\alpha}{k}\binom{-1-\alpha}{k}\quad\text{and}\quad \sum_{k=0}^{\frac{p-1}{2}}\frac{H_k^{(2)}}{k}\cdot\binom{\alpha}{k}\binom{-1-\alpha}{k} modulo p3p^3. In particular, by setting α=1/2\alpha=-1/2, we confirm two conjectured congruences of Z.-W. Sun.

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@article{arxiv.2201.03418,
  title  = {On the supercongruences involving harmonic numbers of order 2},
  author = {Guo-Shuai Mao and Hao Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.03418},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

The results of Theorem 1.2 in the first version have been removed