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Some q-congruences related to 3-adic valuations

Number Theory 2009-10-26 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

In 1992 Strauss, Shallit and Zagier proved that for any positive integer aa we have k=03a1(2kk)=0(mod32a)\sum_{k=0}^{3^a-1}\binom{2k}{k}=0 (mod 3^{2a}) and furthermore 3^{-2a}}\sum_{k=0}^{3^a-1}\binom{2k}k=1 (mod 3). Recently a qq-analogue of the former congruence was conjectured by Guo and Zeng. In this paper we prove the Guo-Zeng conjecture and also give a qq-analogue of the latter congruence.

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@article{arxiv.0910.4170,
  title  = {Some q-congruences related to 3-adic valuations},
  author = {Hao Pan and Zhi-Wei Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4170},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages