Supercongruences involving Motzkin numbers and central trinomial coefficients
Number Theory
2022-08-23 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
Let and denote the th Motzkin number and the th central trinomial coefficient respectively. We prove that for any prime , \begin{align*} &\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}M_k^2\equiv \left(\frac{p}{3}\right)\left(2-6p\right)\pmod{p^2},\\ &\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}kM_k^2\equiv \left(\frac{p}{3}\right)\left(9p-1\right)\pmod{p^2},\\ &\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}T_kM_k\equiv \frac{4}{3}\left(\frac{p}{3}\right)+\frac{p}{6}\left(1-9\left(\frac{p}{3}\right)\right)\pmod{p^2}, \end{align*} where is the Legendre symbol. These results confirm three 12-year-old supercongruence conjectures of Z.-W. Sun.
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@article{arxiv.2208.10275,
title = {Supercongruences involving Motzkin numbers and central trinomial coefficients},
author = {Ji-Cai Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.10275},
year = {2022}
}
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