A matrix variation on Ramus's identity for lacunary sums of binomial coefficients

zbMATH Open1397.11049arXiv1610.09361MaRDI QIDQ2960935FDOQ2960935

Authors: John Blythe Dobson 

Publication date: 17 February 2017

Abstract: We study the well-known lacunary sums of binomial coefficients considered, most notably, by Christian Ramus, and their connection to a special kind of harmonic number associated with the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem. For one case of Ramus's famous identity we obtain a variation in which some of the parameters are replaced by square matrices of arbitrary dimension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09361

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zbMATH Keywords

matricesharmonic numbersbinomial sums

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65)

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