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Supercongruences concerning truncated hypergeometric series

Number Theory 2018-06-22 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let n3n\geq 3 be an integer and pp be a prime with p1(modn)p\equiv 1\pmod{n}. In this paper, we show that nFn1[n1nn1nn1n111]p1Γp(1n)n(modp3),{}_nF_{n-1}\bigg[\begin{matrix} \frac{n-1}{n}&\frac{n-1}{n}&\ldots&\frac{n-1}{n}\\ &1&\ldots&1\end{matrix}\bigg | \, 1\bigg]_{p-1}\equiv -\Gamma_p\bigg(\frac{1}{n}\bigg)^n\pmod{p^3}, where the truncated hypergeometric series nFn1[x1x2xny1yn1z]m=k=0mzkk!j=0k1(x1+j)(xn+j)(y1+j)(yn1+j)_nF_{n-1} \bigg[\begin{matrix} x_1&x_2&\ldots&x_n\\ &y_1&\cdots&y_{n-1}\end{matrix}\bigg | \, z\bigg]_m=\sum_{k=0}^{m}\frac{z^k}{k!}\prod_{j=0}^{k-1}\frac{(x_1+j)\cdots(x_{n}+j)}{(y_1+j)\cdots(y_{n-1}+j)} and Γp\Gamma_p denotes the pp-adic gamma function. This confirms a conjecture of Deines, Fuselier, Long, Swisher and Tu. Furthermore, under the same assumptions, we also prove that pnn+1Fn[111n+1nn+1n1]p1Γp(1n)n(mod p3),p^n\cdot {}_{n+1} F_n \bigg[ \begin{matrix} 1 &1 &\ldots &1\\ &\frac{n+1}{n} &\ldots &\frac{n+1}{n} \end{matrix}\bigg | \, 1\bigg]_{p-1} \equiv -\Gamma_p \Bigl(\frac{1}{n} \Bigr)^n \quad(\mathrm{mod}\ {p^3}), which solves another conjecture of Deines, Fuselier, Long, Swisher and Tu.

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@article{arxiv.1806.02735,
  title  = {Supercongruences concerning truncated hypergeometric series},
  author = {Chen Wang and Hao Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.02735},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

This is a preliminary manuscript. Theorem 1.2 is added

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