Congruences involving alternating harmonic sums modulo p α q β

DOI10.1515/MS-2017-0159MaRDI QIDQ4558046zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhong Yan Shen, Tianxin Cai

Publication date 27 November 2018

Published in Mathematica Slovaca (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03154

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Primes (11A41)

Abstract: In 2014, Wang and Cai established the following harmonic congruence for any odd prime $p$ and positive integer $r$, �egin{equation*} sumlimits_{i+j+k=p^{r}atop{i,j,kin mathcal{P}_{p}}}frac{1}{ijk}equiv-2p^{r-1}B_{p-3} ~(�mod ~ p^{r}), end{equation*} where $mathcal{P}_n$ denote the set of positive integers which are prime to $n$. In this note, we obtain the congruences for distinct odd primes $p,q$ and positive integers $$, �egin{equation*} sumlimits_{i+j+k=p^{alpha}q^{�eta}atop{i,j,kinmathcal{P}_{pq}atop{iequiv jequiv kequiv 1pmod{2}}}}frac{1}{ijk}equivfrac{7}{8}(2-q)(1-frac{1}{q^{3}})p^{alpha-1}q^{�eta-1}B_{p-3}pmod{p^{alpha}} end{equation*} and �egin{equation*} sumlimits_{i+j+k=p^{alpha}q^{�eta}atop{i,j,kin mathcal{P}_{pq}}}frac{(-1)^{i}}{ijk} equiv frac{1}{2}(q-2)(1-frac{1}{q^{3}})p^{alpha-1}q^{�eta-1}B_{p-3}pmod{p^{alpha}}. end{equation*} Finally, we raise a conjecture that for $n>1$ and odd prime power $p^{alpha}||n$, $alphageq1$, �egin{eqnarray}

onumber sumlimits_{i+j+k=natop{i,j,kinmathcal{P}_{n}}}frac{(-1)^{i}}{ijk} equiv prodlimits_{q|natop{q eq p}}(1-frac{2}{q})(1-frac{1}{q^{3}})frac{n}{2p}B_{p-3}pmod{p^{alpha}} end{eqnarray} and �egin{eqnarray} onumber sumlimits_{i+j+k=natop{i,j,kinmathcal{P}_{n}atop{iequiv jequiv kequiv 1pmod{2}}}}frac{1}{ijk} equiv prodlimits_{q|natop{q

eq p}}(1-frac{2}{q})(1-frac{1}{q^{3}})(-frac{7n}{8p})B_{p-3}pmod{p^{alpha}}. end{eqnarray}

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• Bernoulli numbers, Wolstenholme's theorem, and \(p^5\) variations of Lucas' theorem

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• On a congruence involving harmonic series and Bernoulli numbers

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