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p-adic congruences motivated by series

Number Theory 2013-12-04 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let p>5p>5 be a prime. Motivated by the known formulae k=1(1)k/(k3(2kk))=2ζ(3)/5\sum_{k=1}^\infty(-1)^k/(k^3\binom{2k}{k})=-2\zeta(3)/5 and k=0(2kk)2/((2k+1)16k)=4G/π\sum_{k=0}^\infty \binom{2k}{k}^2/((2k+1)16^k)=4G/\pi(where (where G=\sum_{k=0}^\infty(-1)^k/(2k+1)^2istheCatalanconstant),weshowthat is the Catalan constant), we show that k=1(p1)/2(1)kk3(2kk)2Bp3(modp),\sum_{k=1}^{(p-1)/2}\frac{(-1)^k}{k^3\binom{2k}{k}}\equiv-2B_{p-3}\pmod{p}, k=(p+1)/2p1(2kk)2(2k+1)16k74p2Bp3(modp3)\sum_{k=(p+1)/2}^{p-1}\frac{\binom{2k}{k}^2}{(2k+1)16^k}\equiv-\frac 7{4}p^2B_{p-3}\pmod{p^3},and, and k=0(p3)/2(2kk)2(2k+1)16k2qp(2)pqp(2)2+512p2Bp3(modp3),\sum_{k=0}^{(p-3)/2}\frac{\binom{2k}{k}^2}{(2k+1)16^k} \equiv-2q_p(2)-pq_p(2)^2+\frac{5}{12}p^2B_{p-3}\pmod{p^3},where where B_0,B_1,\ldotsareBernoullinumbersand are Bernoulli numbers and q_p(2)istheFermatquotient is the Fermat quotient (2^{p-1}-1)/p$.

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@article{arxiv.1111.4988,
  title  = {p-adic congruences motivated by series},
  author = {Zhi-Wei Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4988},
  year   = {2013}
}

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15 pages, final published version

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