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Supercongruences involving products of two binomial coefficients modulo $p^4$

Number Theory 2026-01-26 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper, we mainly prove a congruence conjecture of Z.-W. Sun \cite{Sjnt}: Let p>5p>5 be a prime. Then k=(p+1)/2p1(2kk)2k16k212Hp1(modp4), \sum_{k=(p+1)/2}^{p-1}\frac{\binom{2k}k^2}{k16^k}\equiv-\frac{21}2H_{p-1}\pmod{p^4}, where HnH_n denotes the nn-th harmonic number.

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@article{arxiv.2201.06951,
  title  = {Supercongruences involving products of two binomial coefficients modulo $p^4$},
  author = {Guo-Shuai Mao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.06951},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

19 pages, this is a preliminary draft, comments are welcome. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2201.03418