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In this paper, we prove two recently conjectured supercongruences (modulo $p^3$, where $p$ is any prime greater than $3$) of Zhi-Hong Sun on truncated sums involving the Domb numbers. Our proofs involve a number of ingredients such as…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Guo-Shuai Mao , Michael J. Schlosser

By applying the derivative operator to the known identities from hypergeometric series or WZ pairs, we obtain seven series associated with harmonic numbers. Specifically, six of them are Ramanujan-like formulas for $1/\pi$ and the remaining…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Qinghu Hou , Haihong He , Xiaoxia Wang

In this paper, we prove two supercongruences conjectured by Z.-W. Sun via the Wilf-Zeilberger method. One of them is, for any prime $p>3$, \begin{align*} \sum_{n=0}^{p-1}\frac{6n+1}{256^n}\binom{2n}n^3&\equiv…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Guo-Shuai Mao , Chen-Wei Wen

We prove and generalize several recent conjectures of Z.-W. Sun surrounding binomial coefficients and harmonic numbers. We show that Sun's series and their analogs can be represented as cyclotomic multiple zeta values of levels…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Yajun Zhou

We consider a special class of binomial sums involving harmonic numbers and we prove three identities by using the elementary method of the partial fraction decomposition. Some applications to infinite series and congruences are given.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Helmut Prodinger , Roberto Tauraso

In the present paper, we determine the sums $\sum_{j=1}^{p-1}\frac{H_j^{(s_1)}H_j^{(s_3)}}{j^{s_2}}$ and $\sum_{j=1}^{p-1}\frac{H_j^{(s_1)}H_j^{(s_3)}H_j^{(s_4)}}{j^{s_2}}$ modulo $p$ and modulo $p^2$ in certain cases. This is done by using…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Walid Kehila

During 2022--2023 Z.-W. Sun posed many conjectures on infinite series with summands involving generalized harmonic numbers. Motivated by this, we deduce $58$ series identities involving harmonic numbers, eight of which were previously…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Qing-Hu Hou , Zhi-Wei Sun

In this paper, we formally introduce the notion of Ap{\'e}ry-like sums and we show that every multiple zeta values can be expressed as a $\bf Z$-linear combination of them. We even describe a canonical way to do so. This allows us to put in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-12 P. Akhilesh

In this paper, we prove two conjectural supercongruences on the $(p-1)$th Ap\'ery number, which were recently proposed by Z.-H. Sun.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Ji-Cai Liu , Chen Wang

We show how infinite series of a certain type involving generalized harmonic numbers can be computed using a knowledge of symmetric functions and multiple zeta values. In particular, we prove and generalize some identities recently…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Michael E. Hoffman

We establish a $q$-analogue of Sun--Zhao's congruence on harmonic sums. Based on this $q$-congruence and a $q$-series identity, we prove a congruence conjecture on sums of central $q$-binomial coefficients, which was recently proposed by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Ji-Cai Liu , Fedor Petrov

The harmonic numbers $H_n=\sum_{0<k\ls n}1/k\ (n=0,1,2,\ldots)$ play important roles in mathematics. With helps of some combinatorial identities, we establish the following two congruences:…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Guo-Shuai Mao

The objective of the paper is the study of Mneimneh-like sums with a parametric variant of the multiple harmonic-star values. We generalize and resolve the Pan-Xu conjecture on generalized Mneimneh-like sums and present their…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Marian Genčev

We report here on the computational verification of a refinement of Zhi-Wei Sun's "1-3-5 conjecture" for all natural numbers up to 105 103 560 126. This, together with a result of two of the authors, completes the proof of that conjecture.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-28 António Machiavelo , Rogério Reis , Nikolaos Tsopanidis

In this paper, we pose lots of challenging conjectures on congruences for the sums involving binomial coefficients and Ap\'ery-like numbers modulo $p^3$, where $p$ is an odd prime.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Zhi-Hong Sun

We combine the powerful method of Wilf-Zeilberger pairs with systematic theory of multiple zeta values to prove a large number of series identities due to Z.W. Sun, many of them have been long standing conjectures.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Kam Cheong Au

We develop techniques to deal with monotonicity of sequences z_{n+1}/z_n and \sqrt[n]{z_n}. A series of conjectures of Zhi-Wei Sun and of Amdeberhan et al. are verified in certain unified approaches.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Yi Wang , Bao-Xuan Zhu

Z.-W. Sun introduced three kinds of numbers: \begin{align*}S_n=\sum_{k=0}^{n}{n\choose k}^2{2k\choose k}(2k+1),\qquad s_n=\sum_{k=0}^{n}{n\choose k}^2{2k\choose k}\frac{1}{2k-1}, \end{align*} and $S_n^{+}=\sum_{k=0}^{n}{n\choose…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Victor J. W. Guo , Ji-Cai Liu

For a positive integer $n$ let $H_n=\sum_{k=1}^{n}1/k$ be the $n$th harmonic number. In this note we prove that for any prime $p\ge 7$, $$ \sum_{k=1}^{p-1}\frac{H_k^2}{k^2} \equiv4/5pB_{p-5}\pmod{p^2}, $$ which confirms the conjecture…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-27 Romeo Mestrovic

The Sun polynomials $g_n(x)$ are defined by \begin{align*} g_n(x)=\sum_{k=0}^n{n\choose k}^2{2k\choose k}x^k. \end{align*} We prove that, for any positive integer $n$, there hold \begin{align*} &\frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}(4k+3)g_k(x)…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Victor J. W. Guo , Guo-Shuai Mao , Hao Pan