Proof of Guo's two conjectures

DOI10.1007/S40840-025-02013-1MaRDI QIDQ6868384zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Chang Xu, Xiaoxia Wang

Publication date 26 January 2026

Published in Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S40840-025-02013-1

zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-analogues\(q\)-supercongruencehypergeometric seriessupercongruences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65) Congruences for modular and (p)-adic modular forms (11F33) Cyclotomic extensions (11R18) (q)-gamma functions, (q)-beta functions and integrals (33D05) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15)

Review text

Let us use \((a)_n\) to denote the Pochhammer symbol and, for a prime \(p\), let \(\Gamma_p(x)\) denote the \(p\)-adic Gamma function. In 1997, \textit{L. van Hamme} [Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 192, 223--236 (1997; Zbl 0895.11051)] proposed the following supercongruence: for any odd prime \(p\), modulo \(p^2\),\N\[\N\sum_{k=0}^{\frac{p-1}{2}} \frac{(1/2)_k^3}{k!^3}\N=\N\begin{cases}\N-\Gamma_p(1/4)^4, & p \equiv 1 \pmod{4}, \\\N0, & p \equiv 3 \pmod{4}.\N\end{cases}\N\]\N\NThere exist some \(q\)-analogues of this kind of supercongruence. Instead of using congruences modulo \(p^2\), one considers congruences modulo \(\Phi_n(q)^2\), where \(\Phi_n(q)\) is the \(n\)-th cyclotomic polynomial.\N\NThis paper uses Singh's quadratic transformation formula to establish a \(q\)-congruence related to Van Hamme's supercongruence and confirms two conjectures proposed by \textit{V. J. W. Guo} [Chin. Ann. Math., Ser. B 46, No. 5, 725--732 (2025; Zbl 08105271)].

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