Sun-type determinant and permanent congruences
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 already implies the non-vanishing assertion in Conjecture 4.6 when ; our determinant argument gives a root-quotient criterion for irreducible binary quadratic forms over and also covers the remaining case . For the Cauchy kernel , we prove the derangement determinant and permanent congruences modulo and a polynomial fixed-point permanent congruence modulo . For the Cayley kernel , 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 . 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 , and by when .
Cite
@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}
}