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Power-partible Reduction and Congruences for Schr\"oder Polynomials

Combinatorics 2023-10-11 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

In this note, we apply the power-partible reduction to show the following arithmetic properties of large Schr\"oder polynomials Sn(z)S_n(z) and little Schr\"oder polynomials sn(z)s_n(z): for any odd prime pp, nonnegative integer rNr\in\mathbb{N}, ε{1,1}\varepsilon\in\{-1,1\} and zZz\in\mathbb{Z} with gcd(p,z(z+1))=1\gcd(p,z(z+1))=1, we have k=0p1(2k+1)2r+1εkSk(z)1(modp)andk=0p1(2k+1)2r+1εksk(z)0(modp). \sum_{k=0}^{p-1}(2k+1)^{2r+1}\varepsilon^k S_k(z)\equiv 1\pmod {p}\quad \text{and} \quad \sum_{k=0}^{p-1}(2k+1)^{2r+1}\varepsilon^k s_k(z)\equiv 0\pmod {p}.

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@article{arxiv.2310.06314,
  title  = {Power-partible Reduction and Congruences for Schr\"oder Polynomials},
  author = {Chen-Bo Jia and Rong-Hua Wang and Michael X. X. Zhong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.06314},
  year   = {2023}
}

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