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$q$-Supercongruences from transformation formulas

Number Theory 2021-09-27 v1

Abstract

Let Φn(q)\Phi_{n}(q) denote the nn-th cyclotomic polynomial in qq. Recently, Guo and Schlosser [Constr. Approx. 53 (2021), 155--200] put forward the following conjecture: for an odd integer n>1n>1, \begin{align*} &\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}[8k-1]\frac{(q^{-1};q^4)_k^6(q^2;q^2)_{2k}}{(q^4;q^4)_k^6(q^{-1};q^2)_{2k}}q^{8k}\notag\\ &\quad\equiv\begin{cases}0 \pmod{[n]\Phi_n(q)^2}, &\text{if }n\equiv 1\pmod{4},\\[5pt] 0 \pmod{[n]},&\text{if }n\equiv 3\pmod{4}. \end{cases} \end{align*} Applying the `creative microscoping' method and several summation and transformation formulas for basic hypergeometric series and the Chinese remainder theorem for coprime polynomials, we confirm the above conjecture, as well as another similar qq-supercongruence conjectured by Guo and Schlosser.

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@article{arxiv.2109.12034,
  title  = {$q$-Supercongruences from transformation formulas},
  author = {He-Xia Ni and Li-Yuan Wang and Hai-Liang Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12034},
  year   = {2021}
}

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15 pages

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