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A family of super congruences involving multiple harmonic sums

Authors :
Megan McCoy
Jianqiang Zhao
Liuquan Wang
Kevin Thielen
Source :
International Journal of Number Theory
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt, 2016.

Abstract

In recent years, the congruence $$ \sum_{\substack{i+j+k=p\\ i,j,k>0}} \frac1{ijk} \equiv -2 B_{p-3} \pmod{p}, $$ first discovered by the last author have been generalized by either increasing the number of indices and considering the corresponding supercongruences, or by considering the alternating version of multiple harmonic sums. In this paper, we prove a family of similar supercongruences modulo prime powers $p^r$ with the indexes summing up to $mp^r$ where $m$ is coprime to $p$, where all the indexes are also coprime to $p$.<br />16 pages, final version for publication

Details

ISSN :
17937310 and 17930421
Volume :
13
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
International Journal of Number Theory
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....aeaf9dc5fe42152459120a482b81ee92