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$p$-adic supercongruences conjectured by Sun

Combinatorics 2019-11-04 v1

Abstract

In this paper we prove three results conjectured by Z.-W. Sun. Let pp be an odd prime and let hZh\in \mathbb{Z} with 2h10(modp)2h-1\equiv0\pmod{p^{}}. For aZ+a\in\mathbb{Z}^{+} and pa>3p^a>3, we show that \begin{align}\notag \sum_{k=0}^{p^a-1}\binom{hp^a-1}{k}\binom{2k}{k}\bigg(-\frac{h}{2}\bigg)^k\equiv0\pmod{p^{a+1}}. \end{align} Also, for any nZ+n\in \mathbb{Z}^{+} we have \begin{align} \notag \nu_{p}\bigg(\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}\binom{hn-1}{k}\binom{2k}{k}\bigg(-\frac{h}{2}\bigg)^k\bigg)\geq\nu_{p}(n)\notag, \end{align} where νp(n)\nu_p(n) denotes the pp-adic order of nn. For any integer m≢0(modp)m\not\equiv 0\pmod{p^{}} and positive integer nn, we have \begin{align*} \frac{1}{pn}\bigg(\sum_{k=0}^{pn-1}\binom{pn-1}{k}\frac{\binom{2k}{k}}{(-m)^k}-\bigg(\frac{m(m-4)}{p}\bigg)\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}\binom{n-1}{k}\frac{\binom{2k}{k}}{(-m)^k}\bigg)\in \mathbb{Z}_{p}, \end{align*} where (.)(\frac{.}{}) is the Legendre symbol and Zp\mathbb{Z}_p is the ring of pp-adic integers.

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@article{arxiv.1911.00005,
  title  = {$p$-adic supercongruences conjectured by Sun},
  author = {Yong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.00005},
  year   = {2019}
}
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