Guo and Schlosser's generalized q-congruence for d-adic parameters

Let d3d\geqslant 3 and let nn be a positive integer with n1(modd)n\equiv -1\pmod{d}. Let (a;q)k=(1a)(1aq)(1aqk1)(a;q)_k=(1-a)(1-aq)\cdots(1-aq^{k-1}) denote the qq-shifted factorial, let [m]=1+q++qm1[m]=1+q+\cdots+q^{m-1}, and let Φn(q)\Phi_n(q) be the nn-th cyclotomic polynomial. Guo and Schlosser's conjecture. For M=((d1)n1)/dM=((d-1)n-1)/d or n1n-1, one has

k=0M[2dk+1](q;qd)k2d(qd;qd)k2dqd(d2)k0(mod[n]Φn(q)3).\sum_{k=0}^{M}[2dk+1] \frac{(q;q^d)_k^{2d}}{(q^d;q^d)_k^{2d}}q^{d(d-2)k} \equiv 0 \pmod{[n]\Phi_{n}(q)^3}.

This conjecture strengthens the known partial qq-analogue of the corresponding supercongruence for the case d=3d=3 and n2(mod3)n\equiv 2\pmod 3.

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Victor J. W. Guo and Michael J. Schlosser, “A family of q-hypergeometric congruences modulo the fourth power of a cyclotomic polynomial”, arXiv:1909.10294 (2019).

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