Supercongruences for sums involving Domb numbers
Number Theory
2020-08-18 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
We prove some supercongruence and divisibility results on sums involving Domb numbers, which confirm four conjectures of Z.-W. Sun and Z.-H. Sun. For instance, by using a transformation formula due to Chan and Zudilin, we show that for any prime , \begin{align*} \sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{3k+1}{(-32)^k}{\rm Domb}(k)\equiv (-1)^{\frac{p-1}{2}}p+p^3E_{p-3} \pmod{p^4}, \end{align*} which is regarded as a -adic analogue of the following interesting formula for due to Rogers: \begin{align*} \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{3k+1}{(-32)^k}{\rm Domb}(k)=\frac{2}{\pi}. \end{align*} Here and are the famous Domb numbers and Euler numbers.
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@article{arxiv.2008.02647,
title = {Supercongruences for sums involving Domb numbers},
author = {Ji-Cai Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.02647},
year = {2020}
}
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