Some congruences involving central q-binomial coefficients
Number Theory
2011-03-25 v3 Combinatorics
Abstract
Motivated by recent works of Sun and Tauraso, we prove some variations on the Green-Krammer identity involving central q-binomial coefficients, such as where is the Legendre symbol and is the th cyclotomic polynomial. As consequences, we deduce that \sum_{k=0}^{3^a m-1} q^{k}{2k\brack k}_q &\equiv 0 \pmod{(1-q^{3^a})/(1-q)}, \sum_{k=0}^{5^a m-1}(-1)^kq^{-{k+1\choose 2}}{2k\brack k}_q &\equiv 0 \pmod{(1-q^{5^a})/(1-q)}, for , the first one being a partial q-analogue of the Strauss-Shallit-Zagier congruence modulo powers of 3. Several related conjectures are proposed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0910.3563,
title = {Some congruences involving central q-binomial coefficients},
author = {Victor J. W. Guo and Jiang Zeng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3563},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
16 pages, detailed proofs of Theorems 4.1 and 4.3 are added, to appear in Adv. Appl. Math