On an extension of a van Hamme supercongruence

The Ramanujan Journal - Tập 42 - Trang 713-723 - 2016
Dian-Wang Hu1, Guo-Shuai Mao1
1Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Tóm tắt

We prove a conjectural extension of a van Hamme supercongruence due to Sun. The proof is inspired by recent techniques due to Osburn and Zudilin, in particular the use of a certain WZ pair and congruences for quotients of Pochhammer symbols.

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