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2022/101/1-2 (3) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2022.9140 — pp. 33-45

On some congruence conjectures modulo $p^2$

Authors: Guo-Shuai Mao

Abstract:

In this paper, we mainly obtain a congruence which contains a conjecture of Z.-W. Sun. For any prime $p>3$, we have $$ \sum_{n=0}^{p-1}\left(\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}k\frac{\binom{2k}k}{2^k}\right)\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}k\frac{\binom{2k}k}{(-6)^k}\equiv \left(\frac3p\right)3^{p-1}\pmod{p^2}, $$ where $\left(\frac{\cdot}{p}\right)$ stands for the Legendre symbol.

Keywords: congruences, binomial coefficients, Legendre symbol, hypergeometric series

Mathematics Subject Classification: 05A10, 11A07, 33C05, 33C20