Non-vanishing conjecture for Bernoulli numbers modulo primes

Let k3k\geq 3 be an odd integer. The Bernoulli number BpkB_{p-k} is defined for each prime pp.

Non-vanishing conjecture. There exist infinitely many primes pp such that

Bpk≢0(modp).B_{p-k}\not\equiv 0\pmod{p}.

This is equivalent to the non-triviality of the corresponding element of the algebra of finite multiple zeta values. The statement is presented as an open problem in the source, and no resolution is supplied here.

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Bruno Anglès, Tuan Ngo Dac and Floric Tavares Ribeiro, “Exceptional Zeros of L-series and Bernoulli-Carlitz Numbers”, arXiv:1511.06209 (2015).

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