Some \(q\)-supercongruences from a quadratic transformation by Rahman (Q2072208)

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Some \(q\)-supercongruences from a quadratic transformation by Rahman
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    Some \(q\)-supercongruences from a quadratic transformation by Rahman (English)
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    26 January 2022
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    Inspired by the recent work on \(q\)-congruences and a quadratic transformation formula of Rahman, the authors provided some new \(q\)supercongruences. For example, Theorem 1. Let \(n\) be a positive odd integer. Then, modulo \([n]\phi_n(q)^2\), if \(n\equiv1\pmod4\), \[ \sum_{k=0}^M[6k+1]\frac{\left(q,e,q^3/e;q^4\right)_k(q;q^2)_k^3}{\left(q^2,e,q^3/e;q^2\right)_k(q^4;q^4)_k^3}q^{2k}\equiv\frac{(q^2;q^4)_{(n-1)/4}}{(q^4;q^4)_{(n-1)/4}}[n]q^{(1-n)/4}\sum_{k=0}^{(n-1)/4}\frac{(q;q^4)_k^3}{\left(q^4,eq^2,q^5/e;q^4\right)_k}q^{4k} \] and if \(n\equiv3\pmod4\), \[ \sum_{k=0}^M[6k+1]\frac{\left(q,e,q^3/e;q^4\right)_k(q;q^2)_k^3}{\left(q^2,e,q^3/e;q^2\right)_k(q^4;q^4)_k^3}q^{2k}\equiv 0, \] where \(M=(n-1)/2\) or \( n-1\). By taking parameters specialization in one of their results, they obtain a new Ramanujan-type supercongruence, which has the same right-hand side as Van Hamme's (G.2) supercongruence for \(p\equiv 1 \pmod 4\). They also formulated some related challenging conjectures on supercongruences and \(q\)-supercongruences.
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    basic hypergeometric series
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    supercongruences
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    \(q\)-congruences
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    cyclotomic polynomial
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    Rahman's transformation formula
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