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A Curious Congruence Involving Alternating Harmonic Sums

Number Theory 2014-07-23 v1

Abstract

Let pp be a prime and Pp{\mathcal{P}_{p}} the set of positive integers which are prime to pp. We establish the following interesting congruence i+j+k=pri,j,kPp(1)iijkpr12Bp3(modpr).\sum\limits_{\begin{smallmatrix} i+j+k={{p}^{r}} i,j,k\in {\mathcal{P}_{p}} \end{smallmatrix}}{\frac{{{(-1)}^{i}}}{ijk}}\equiv \frac{{{p}^{r-1}}}{2}{{B}_{p-3}}\, (\bmod \, {{p}^{r}}).

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@article{arxiv.1407.5789,
  title  = {A Curious Congruence Involving Alternating Harmonic Sums},
  author = {Liuquan Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.5789},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

This is an original research article about congruences. It has submitted for publication in June 2014

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