Mathematics – Number Theory
Scientific paper
2009-10-19
Adv. Appl. Math. 45 (2010)? 303--316
Mathematics
Number Theory
16 pages, detailed proofs of Theorems 4.1 and 4.3 are added, to appear in Adv. Appl. Math
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.aam.2009.12.002
Motivated by recent works of Sun and Tauraso, we prove some variations on the Green-Krammer identity involving central q-binomial coefficients, such as $$ \sum_{k=0}^{n-1}(-1)^kq^{-{k+1\choose 2}}{2k\brack k}_q \equiv (\frac{n}{5}) q^{-\lfloor n^4/5\rfloor} \pmod{\Phi_n(q)}, $$ where $\big(\frac{n}{p}\big)$ is the Legendre symbol and $\Phi_n(q)$ is the $n$th cyclotomic polynomial. As consequences, we deduce that $$ \sum_{k=0}^{3^a m-1} q^{k}{2k\brack k}_q &\equiv 0 \pmod{(1-q^{3^a})/(1-q)}, \sum_{k=0}^{5^a m-1}(-1)^kq^{-{k+1\choose 2}}{2k\brack k}_q &\equiv 0 \pmod{(1-q^{5^a})/(1-q)}, $$ for $a,m\geq 1$, the first one being a partial q-analogue of the Strauss-Shallit-Zagier congruence modulo powers of 3. Several related conjectures are proposed.
Guo Victor J. W.
Zeng Jiang
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