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On two conjectural supercongruences of Z.-W. Sun

Number Theory 2020-04-28 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper, we mainly prove two conjectural supercongruences of Sun by using the following identity k=0n(2kk)2(2n2knk)2=16nk=0n(n+kk)(nk)(2kk)2(16)k \sum_{k=0}^n\binom{2k}{k}^2\binom{2n-2k}{n-k}^2=16^n\sum_{k=0}^n\frac{\binom{n+k}{k}\binom{n}{k}\binom{2k}{k}^2}{(-16)^k} which arises from a 4F3{}_4F_3 hypergeometric transformation. For any prime p>3p>3, we prove that \begin{gather*} \sum_{n=0}^{p-1}\frac{n+1}{8^n}\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{2k}{k}^2\binom{2n-2k}{n-k}^2\equiv(-1)^{(p-1)/2}p+5p^3E_{p-3}\pmod{p^4},\\ \sum_{n=0}^{p-1}\frac{2n+1}{(-16)^n}\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{2k}{k}^2\binom{2n-2k}{n-k}^2\equiv(-1)^{(p-1)/2}p+3p^3E_{p-3}\pmod{p^4}, \end{gather*} where Ep3E_{p-3} is the (p3)(p-3)th Euler number.

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@article{arxiv.2003.09888,
  title  = {On two conjectural supercongruences of Z.-W. Sun},
  author = {Chen Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.09888},
  year   = {2020}
}

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