Two congruences involving harmonic numbers with applications
Number Theory
2016-02-25 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
The harmonic numbers play important roles in mathematics. Let be a prime. With helps of some combinatorial identities, we establish the following two new congruences: and where denotes the Bernoulli polynomial of degree . As an application, we determine and modulo , where with .
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@article{arxiv.1412.0523,
title = {Two congruences involving harmonic numbers with applications},
author = {Guo-Shuai Mao and Zhi-Wei Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.0523},
year = {2016}
}
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14 pages