Proof of Sun's conjecture on the divisibility of certain binomial sums

zbMATH Open1295.11021arXiv1301.4877MaRDI QIDQ396941FDOQ396941

Authors: Victor J. W. Guo 

Publication date: 14 August 2014

Published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we prove the following result conjectured by Z.-W. Sun: ${\displaystyle }$ (2n-1){3nchoose n}| sum_{k=0}^{n}{6kchoose 3k}{3kchoose k}{6(n-k)choose 3(n-k)}{3(n-k)choose n-k}. ${\displaystyle }$ by showing that the left-hand side divides each summand on the right-hand side.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4877

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zbMATH Keywords

congruencesbinomial coefficientsStirling's formulasuper Catalan numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65)

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