Higher-level supercongruence for truncated hypergeometric series

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Fix an integer d2d\ge2, let pp be an odd prime, and define

Fps(z)=n=0ps1((1/2)nn!)dznF_{p^s}(z)=\sum_{n=0}^{p^s-1}\left({(1/2)_n\over n!}\right)^d z^n

and

fp(z)=limsFps(z)Fps1(z).f_p(z)=\lim_{s\to\infty}{F_{p^s}(z)\over F_{p^{s-1}}(z)}.

Let ϵ=±1\epsilon=\pm1 and suppose that Fp(ϵ)F_p(\epsilon) is a pp-adic unit. Higher-level supercongruence. For every integer s1s\ge1, one should have

Fps(ϵ)fp(ϵ)Fps1(ϵ)(modp2s).F_{p^s}(\epsilon)\equiv f_p(\epsilon)F_{p^{s-1}}(\epsilon)\pmod{p^{2s}}.

This is proposed as a generalization of the paper's theorem, which gives the corresponding first-level modulus-p2p^2 congruence. The assertion is supported by numerical experiments and remains conjectural.

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Primary source

Frits Beukers and Eric Delaygue, “Some supercongruences of arbitrary length”, arXiv:1805.02467 (2018).

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