A combinatorial identity with application to Catalan numbers

Details A combinatorial identity with application to Catalan numbers A combinatorial identity with application to Catalan numbers

2005-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/math/0509648v9

Discrete Math. 306(2006), 1921-1940

Mathematics

Combinatorics

22 pages

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By a very simple argument, we prove that if $l,m,n$ are nonnegative integers then $$\sum_{k=0}^l(-1)^{m-k}\binom{l}{k}\binom{m-k}{n}\binom{2k}{k-2l+m} =\sum_{k=0}^l\binom{l}{k}\binom{2k}{n}\binom{n-l}{m+n-3k-l}. On the basis of this identity, for $d,r=0,1,2,...$ we construct explicit $F(d,r)$ and $G(d,r)$ such that for any prime $p>\max\{d,r\}$ we have \sum_{k=1}^{p-1}k^r C_{k+d}\equiv \cases F(d,r)(mod p)& if 3|p-1, \\G(d,r)\ (mod p)& if 3|p-2, where $C_n$ denotes the Catalan number $(n+1)^{-1}\binom{2n}{n}$. For example, when $p\geq 5$ is a prime, we have \sum_{k=1}^{p-1}k^2C_k\equiv\cases-2/3 (mod p)& if 3|p-1, \1/3 (mod p)& if 3|p-2; and \sum_{0

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