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Proof of some conjectural congruences involving Domb numbers

Number Theory 2022-07-26 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper, we mainly prove the following conjectures of Z.-H. Sun \cite{SH2}: Let p>3p>3 be a prime. If p1(mod3)p\equiv1\pmod3 and p=x2+3y2p=x^2+3y^2, then we have k=0p1Dk4kk=0p1Dk16k4x22pp24x2(modp3), \sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{D_k}{4^k}\equiv\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{D_k}{16^k}\equiv4x^2-2p-\frac{p^2}{4x^2}\pmod{p^3}, and if p2(mod3)p\equiv2\pmod3, then k=0p1Dk4k2k=0p1Dk16kp22(p12p56)2(modp3), \sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{D_k}{4^k}\equiv-2\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{D_k}{16^k}\equiv\frac{p^2}2\binom{\frac{p-1}2}{\frac{p-5}6}^{-2} \pmod{p^3}, where Dn=k=0n(nk)2(2kk)(2n2knk)D_n=\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}k^2\binom{2k}k\binom{2n-2k}{n-k} stands for the nnth Domb number.

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@article{arxiv.2112.00511,
  title  = {Proof of some conjectural congruences involving Domb numbers},
  author = {Guo-Shuai Mao and Yan Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.00511},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

26 pages. (1.2) in Theorem 1.3 is added. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2111.08775