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In this paper we establish some new congruences involving central binomial coefficients as well as Catalan numbers. Let $p$ be a prime and let $a$ be any positive integer. We determine $\sum_{k=0}^{p^a-1}\binom{2k}{k+d}$ mod $p^2$ for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-03 Zhi-Wei Sun , Roberto Tauraso

Let $p$ be an odd prime. In 2008 E. Mortenson proved van Hamme's following conjecture: $$\sum_{k=0}^{(p-1)/2}(4k+1)\binom{-1/2}k^3\equiv (-1)^{(p-1)/2}p\pmod{p^3}.$$ In this paper we show further that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Zhi-Wei Sun

Let $m>2$ and $q>0$ be integers with $m$ even or $q$ odd. We show the supercongruence $$\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}(-1)^{km}\binom{p/m-q}{k}^m\equiv0\pmod{p^3}.$$ for any prime $p>mq$. This confirms a conjecture of Sun.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-29 Xiang-Zi Meng , Zhi-Wei Sun

In this paper, we employ the Wilf-Zeilberger (WZ) method to prove a supercongruence conjecture posed by Z.-W. Sun: for any prime $p$, \begin{align*} \sum_{k=0}^{\frac{p-3}{2}}\frac{92k^2+61k+9}{(2k+1)64^k}{2k \choose k}{3k \choose k}{4k…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Wei-Wei Qi

We show that if p is an odd prime then $$\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}E_kE_{p-1-k}=1 (mod p)$$ and $$\sum_{k=0}^{p-3}E_kE_{p-3-k}=(-1)^{(p-1)/2}2E_{p-3} (mod p),$$ where E_0,E_1,E_2,... are Euler numbers. Moreover, we prove that for any positive integer…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-22 Zhi-Wei Sun

Using Robert Spira's \cite{D} definitions of complex Mersenne numbers and the complex sum-of-divisors function, we characterize $(\omega+2)$-norm-perfect and $(\omega+2)$-perfect numbers that are divisble by $\omega+2$ and prove the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Carlos Rojas Mena

Let $p$ be an odd prime. In this paper, by using the well-known Karlsson-Minton summation formula, we mainly prove two supercongruences as variants of a supercongruence of Deines-Fuselier-Long-Swisher-Tu, which confirm some recent…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Junhang Li , Yezhenyang Tang , Chen Wang

We show that if the congruence above holds and $n\mid m$, then the quotient $Q:=m/n$ satisfies $\sum_{p\mid Q} \frac{Q}{p}+1 \equiv 0\pmod{Q}$, where $p$ is prime. The only known solutions of the latter congruence are $Q=1$ and the eight…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-17 José María Grau , Antonio M. Oller-Marcén , Jonathan Sondow

Let $p$ be a prime number, and let $S$ be the numerical semigroup generated by the prime numbers not less than $p$. We compare the orders of magnitude of some invariants of $S$ with each other, e. g., the biggest atom $u$ of $S$ with $p$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Michael Hellus , Anton Rechenauer , Rolf Waldi

In this article, we study the ideals of mid $p$-summing operators. We obtain representation of these operator ideals by tensor norms. These tensor norms are defined by using a particular kind of sequential dual of the class of mid…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Deepika Baweja , Aleena Philip

Recently, Romik determined in [9] the Taylor expansion of the Jacobi theta constant \theta_3, around the point x = 1. He discovered a new integer sequence, (d(n))_0^\infty=1, 1, -1, 51, 849, -26199, \dots, from which the Taylor coefficients…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Robert Scherer

Let $1<c<d$ be two relatively prime integers, $g_{c,d}=cd-c-d$ and $\mathbb{P}$ is the set of primes. For any given integer $k \geq 1$, we prove that $$\#\left\{p^k\le g_{c,d}:p\in \mathbb{P}, ~p^k=cx+dy,~x,y\in \mathbb{Z}_{\geqslant0}…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Enxun Huang , Tengyou Zhu

Recently there has been quite a bit of study carried out related to arithmetic properties of overpartitions into non-multiples of two co-prime integers. The paper [19] by Nadji et al. looked into congruences modulo $3$ and powers of $2$ for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Suparno Ghoshal , Arijit Jana

In 1935, Erd\H{o}s proved that the sums $f_k=\sum_n 1/(n\log n)$, over integers $n$ with exactly $k$ prime factors, are bounded by an absolute constant, and in 1993 Zhang proved that $f_k$ is maximized by the prime sum $f_1=\sum_p 1/(p\log…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Ofir Gorodetsky , Jared Duker Lichtman , Mo Dick Wong

Let \sigma(n) be the sum of divisors of a positive integer n. Robin's theorem states that the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the inequality \sigma(n)<e^\gamma n\log\log n for all n>5040 (\gamma is Euler's constant). It is a natural…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Sadegh Nazardonyavi , Semyon Yakubovich

We obtain a new bound for incomplete Gauss sums modulo primes. Our argument falls under the framework of Vinogradov's method which we use to reduce the problem under consideration to bounding the number of solutions to two distinct systems…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Bryce Kerr

Solomonoff's central result on induction is that the posterior of a universal semimeasure M converges rapidly and with probability 1 to the true sequence generating posterior mu, if the latter is computable. Hence, M is eligible as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Marcus Hutter , Andrej Muchnik

In 2014, Wang and Cai established the following harmonic congruence for any odd prime $p$ and positive integer $r$, \begin{equation*} \sum\limits_{i+j+k=p^{r}\atop{i,j,k\in \mathcal{P}_{p}}}\frac{1}{ijk}\equiv-2p^{r-1}B_{p-3} ~(\bmod ~…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Zhongyan Shen , Tianxin Cai

For any positive integers l and m, a set of integers is said to be (weakly) l-sum-free modulo m if it contains no (pairwise distinct) elements $x_1,x_2,...,x_l,y$ satisfying the congruence $x_1+\...+x_l\equiv y\bmod{m}$. It is proved that,…

We say a natural number $n$ is matchable if there is a bijection from the set of $\tau(n)$ divisors of $n$ to the set $\{1,2,\dots,\tau(n)\}$, where corresponding numbers are relatively prime. We show that the set of matchable numbers has…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Nathan McNew , Carl Pomerance