Mixed Catalan-triangle product divisibility conjecture

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Let Bm,kB_{m,k} and Bn,kB_{n,k} denote the Catalan-triangle quantities used in the paper. Let m,n,s,t⩾1m,n,s,t\geqslant 1 and r⩾0r\geqslant 0, with r+s+t≡1(mod2)r+s+t\equiv 1\pmod 2. Mixed-product divisibility conjecture. The sum

∑k=1nkrBm,ksBn,kt\sum_{k=1}^n k^r B_{m,k}^{s}B_{n,k}^{t}

is divisible by

12(2m)!(2n)!m!n!(m+n)!.\frac{1}{2}\frac{(2m)!(2n)!}{m!n!(m+n)!}.

The statement is presented as a generalization of an earlier corollary for products of Catalan-triangle terms. Its general validity remains open in the source.

References

Primary source

Victor J. W. Guo and Jiang Zeng, “Factors of binomial sums from the Catalan triangle”, arXiv:0909.0307 (2009).

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