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Some new curious congruences involving multiple harmonic sums

Number Theory 2023-05-16 v1

Abstract

It is significant to study congruences involving multiple harmonic sums. Let pp be an odd prime, in recent years, the following curious congruence i+j+k=pi,j,k>01ijk2Bp3(modp)\sum_{\substack{i+j+k=p \\ i, j, k>0}} \frac{1}{i j k} \equiv-2 B_{p-3}\pmod p has been generalized along different directions, where BnB_n denote the nnth Bernoulli number. In this paper, we obtain several new generalizations of the above congruence by applying congruences involving multiple harmonic sums. For example, we have k1+k2++kn=pki>0,1in(1)k1(k13)k1kn(n1)!n2n1+136n1Bpn(13)(modp),\sum_{\substack{k_1+k_2+\cdots+k_n=p \\ k_i> 0, 1 \le i \le n}} \dfrac{(-1)^{k_1}\left(\dfrac{k_1}{3}\right)}{k_1 \cdots k_n} \equiv \dfrac{(n-1)!}{n}\dfrac{2^{n-1}+1}{3\cdot6^{n-1}}B_{p-n}\left(\dfrac{1}{3}\right)\pmod p, where nn is even, Bn(x)B_n(x) denote the Bernoulli polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.2305.07869,
  title  = {Some new curious congruences involving multiple harmonic sums},
  author = {Rong Ma and Ni Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07869},
  year   = {2023}
}

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