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

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Authors John Blythe Dobson

Publication date 17 February 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09361, http://ijmcs.future-in-tech.net/12.1/R-Dobson.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

matricesharmonic numbersbinomial sums

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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