Supercongruences motivated by e
Number Theory
2015-02-27 v8 Combinatorics
Abstract
In this paper we establish some new supercongruences motivated by the well-known fact limn→∞(1+1/n)n=e. Let p>3 be a prime. We prove that k=0∑p−1(k−1/(p+1))p+1≡0 (modp5) \mboxand k=0∑p−1(k1/(p−1))p−1≡32p4Bp−3 (modp5), where B0,B1,B2,… are Bernoulli numbers. We also show that for any a∈Z with p∤a we have k=1∑p−1k1(1+ka)k≡−1(modp) \mboxand k=1∑p−1k21(1+ka)k≡1+2a1(modp).
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@article{arxiv.1011.3487,
title = {Supercongruences motivated by e},
author = {Zhi-Wei Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3487},
year = {2015}
}
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