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Super Congruences Involving Multiple Harmonic Sums and Bernoulli Numbers

Number Theory 2018-04-05 v2

Abstract

Let mm, rr and nn be positive integers. We denote by kn{\bf k}\vdash n any tuple of odd positive integers k=(k1,,kt){\bf k}=(k_1,\dots,k_t) such that k1++kt=nk_1+\dots+k_t=n and kj3k_j\ge 3 for all jj. In this paper we prove that for every sufficiently large prime pp l1+l2++ln=mprpl1l2ln1l1l2lnpr1knCm,kBpk(modpr) \sum_{\substack{l_1+l_2+\cdots+l_n=mp^r p\nmid l_1 l_2 \cdots l_n }} \frac1{l_1l_2\cdots l_n} \equiv p^{r-1} \sum_{{\bf k}\vdash n} C_{m,{\bf k}} B_{p-{\bf k}} \pmod{p^r} where Bpk=Bpk1Bpk2BpktB_{p-{\bf k}}=B_{p-k_1}B_{p-k_2}\cdots B_{p-k_t} are products of Bernoulli numbers and the coefficients Cm,kC_{m,{\bf k}} are polynomials of mm independent of pp and rr. This generalizes previous results by many different authors and confirms a conjecture by the authors and their collaborators.

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@article{arxiv.1702.08401,
  title  = {Super Congruences Involving Multiple Harmonic Sums and Bernoulli Numbers},
  author = {Kevin Chen and Jianqiang Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08401},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

19 pages. We updated the proof of Lemma 5.1 and corrected some misprints