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Sun-type determinant and permanent congruences

Number Theory 2026-05-28 v3

Abstract

Sun proposed a list of congruence and quadratic-residue conjectures for determinants and permanents over residue classes modulo a prime. This article gives a uniform treatment of Conjectures 4.6, 4.7, 4.8(ii), 4.9, 4.10(ii), 4.11 and 4.12 from Sun's list, while making explicit the overlap with two earlier contributions. Luo and Xia's Legendre-symbol formula for Dp(b,1)D_p(b,1) already implies the non-vanishing assertion in Conjecture 4.6 when p5(mod24)p\equiv5\pmod {24}; our determinant argument gives a root-quotient criterion for irreducible binary quadratic forms over \Fp\Fp and also covers the remaining case p19(mod24)p\equiv19\pmod {24}. For the Cauchy kernel 1/(xy)1/(x-y), we prove the derangement determinant and permanent congruences modulo p2p^2 and a polynomial fixed-point permanent congruence modulo pp. For the Cayley kernel (x+y)/(xy)(x+y)/(x-y), She, Sun and Xia's permanent identity supplies the structural input for the fixed-point permanent; combined with our Cauchy permanent congruence and Morley's congruence, it yields the congruence modulo p2p^2. Independent interpolation arguments give the signed fixed-point determinant congruences and the quadratic-residue assertion for the signed derangement determinant. Finally, a local expansion at the unique zero eigenvalue proves the half-size quadratic Cayley determinant divisibility by p2p^2, and by p3p^3 when p7(mod8)p\equiv7\pmod8.

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@article{arxiv.2605.19502,
  title  = {Sun-type determinant and permanent congruences},
  author = {Yaoran Yang and Yutong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.19502},
  year   = {2026}
}