Power-Partible Reduction and Congruences

Authors Rong-Hua Wang, Michael X. X. Zhong

Publication date 5 January 2023

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19)

Abstract: Based on the polynomial reduction, a holonomic (or, P-recursive) sequence

F (k)

can be decomposed into a summable part and a reduced part. In this paper, we show that when

F (k)

has a certain kind of symmetry, the reduced part contains only odd or even powers. The reduction in this case is called a power-partible reduction, which is then applied to obtain new series of congruences for Ap'ery numbers

A_{k}

and central Delannoy polynomials

D_{k} (z)

. In particular, when

p > 3

is a prime, we prove that for each

, there is a

p

-adic integer

c_{r}

such that �egin{equation*} sum_{k=0}^{p-1}(2k+1)^{2r+1}A_kequiv c_r p pmod {p^3}. end{equation*}

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