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Some congruences involving central q-binomial coefficients

Number Theory 2011-03-25 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

Motivated by recent works of Sun and Tauraso, we prove some variations on the Green-Krammer identity involving central q-binomial coefficients, such as k=0n1(1)kq(k+12)[2kk]q(n5)qn4/5(modΦn(q)), \sum_{k=0}^{n-1}(-1)^kq^{-{k+1\choose 2}}{2k\brack k}_q \equiv (\frac{n}{5}) q^{-\lfloor n^4/5\rfloor} \pmod{\Phi_n(q)}, where (np)\big(\frac{n}{p}\big) is the Legendre symbol and Φn(q)\Phi_n(q) is the nnth cyclotomic polynomial. As consequences, we deduce that \sum_{k=0}^{3^a m-1} q^{k}{2k\brack k}_q &\equiv 0 \pmod{(1-q^{3^a})/(1-q)}, \sum_{k=0}^{5^a m-1}(-1)^kq^{-{k+1\choose 2}}{2k\brack k}_q &\equiv 0 \pmod{(1-q^{5^a})/(1-q)}, for a,m1a,m\geq 1, the first one being a partial q-analogue of the Strauss-Shallit-Zagier congruence modulo powers of 3. Several related conjectures are proposed.

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@article{arxiv.0910.3563,
  title  = {Some congruences involving central q-binomial coefficients},
  author = {Victor J. W. Guo and Jiang Zeng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3563},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

16 pages, detailed proofs of Theorems 4.1 and 4.3 are added, to appear in Adv. Appl. Math

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