Proof of Sun's conjectural supercongruence involving Catalan numbers

DOI10.3934/ERA.2020054MaRDI QIDQ779919zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ji-Cai Liu

Publication date 14 July 2020

Published in Electronic Research Archive (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03941

zbMATH Keywords

Catalan numberssupercongruencesFermat quotients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized hypergeometric series, ({}_pF_q) (33C20) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65)

Abstract: We confirm a conjectural supercongruence involving Catalan numbers, which is one of the 100 selected open conjectures on congruences of Sun. The proof makes use of hypergeometric series identities and symbolic summation method.

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