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Supercongruences Arising from Truncated Appell Series

Number Theory 2026-07-06 v1

Abstract

In recent years, both Appell series and truncated Appell series have garnered significant research interest among scholars. In this paper, we investigate the congruence properties of truncated Appell series and truncated qq-Appell series. By employing various combinatorial identities and the `creative microscoping' method introduced by Guo and Zudilin, we provide qq-analogues for several known congruences of truncated Appell series F1F_1 and F2F_2. Meanwhile, we establish a new qq-supercongruence related to the truncated Appell series F4F_4 and propose a related conjecture, which provides a qq-analogue for two conjectures by Apagodu and Zeilberger.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.04583,
  title  = {Supercongruences Arising from Truncated Appell Series},
  author = {He-Xia Ni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.04583},
  year   = {2026}
}