q-analogues of two ``divergent Ramanujan-type supercongruences

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Abstract: Guillera and Zudilin proved three "divergent" Ramanujan-type supercongruences by means of the Wilf-Zeilberger algorithmic technique. In this paper, we prove q-analogues of two of them via the q-WZ method. Additionally, we give q-analogues of two related congruence of Sun, one is confirmed and the other is conjectural.


Originally motivated by the study of \textit{X. Wang} and \textit{M. Yue} [Int. J. Number Theory 16, No. 6, 1325--1335 (2020; Zbl 1469.11006)] on the work of \textit{L. van Hamme} [Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 192, 223--236 (1997; Zbl 0895.11051)], the ``not always easy effort to establish \(q\)-analogues of Ramanujan-type supercongruences by \textit{V. J. W. Guo} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 458, No. 1, 590--600 (2018; Zbl 1373.05025)] continues massively in this paper through the same \(q\)-WZ method, introduced by \textit{D. Zeilberger} [Contemp. Math. 143, 579--607 (1993; Zbl 0808.05010)] and refined by \textit{M. Mohammed} [Ann. Comb. 9, No. 2, 205--221 (2005; Zbl 1078.33022)]. This time, the author focuses on two \(divergent\) congruences given by \textit{J. Guillera} and \textit{W. Zudilin} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 140, No. 3, 765--777 (2012; Zbl 1276.11027)]. Furthermore, this paper supplies the \(q\)-analogues (one of which only conjectural) of two congruences provided by \textit{Z.-W. Sun} [Sci. China, Math. 54, No. 12, 2509--2535 (2011; Zbl 1256.11011)]. Eventually, some conjectures on supercongruences proposed by \textit{J. W. Bober} [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 79, No. 2, 422--444 (2009; Zbl 1195.11025)] and by \textit{H. Swisher} [Res. Math. Sci. 2, Paper No. 18, 21 p. (2015; Zbl 1337.33005)], and even the famous theorem by \textit{Z.-W. Sun} and \textit{R. Tauraso} [Adv. Appl. Math. 45, No. 1, 125--148 (2010; Zbl 1231.11021)] stating that \[ \sum_{k=1}^{p-1} \binom {2k}{k} \frac {1}{k} \equiv 0 \pmod{p^2}\quad \text{for } p>3, \] find their own \(q\)-analogues here. In addition to the Wilf-Zeilberger algorithmic technique, the author employs the recurrence by induction, some properties of \(q\)-factorials, the L'Hôpital's rule, the Staver's identity, and a proof by \textit{L.-L. Shi} and \textit{H. Pan} [Am. Math. Mon. 114, No. 6, 529--531 (2007; Zbl 1193.11018)]. He also recalls the \(n\)-th cyclotomic polynomials, the \(q\)-binomial coefficients, and the \(q\)-WZ pair defined by \textit{W. Zudilin} [J. Number Theory 129, No. 8, 1848--1857 (2009; Zbl 1231.11147)].



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