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

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Let d⩾3d\geqslant 3 and let n>1n>1 be an integer with n≡1(modd)n\equiv 1\pmod{d}. With (a;q)k=(1−a)(1−aq)⋯(1−aqk−1)(a;q)_k=(1-a)(1-aq)\cdots(1-aq^{k-1}), [m]=1+q+⋯+qm−1[m]=1+q+\cdots+q^{m-1}, and Φn(q)\Phi_n(q) the nn-th cyclotomic polynomial, Guo and Schlosser's companion conjecture. For M=((d−1)n+1)/dM=((d-1)n+1)/d or n−1n-1, one has

∑k=0M[2dk−1](q−1;qd)k2d(qd;qd)k2dqd2k≡0(mod[n]Φn(q)3).\sum_{k=0}^{M}[2dk-1] \frac{(q^{-1};q^d)_k^{2d}}{(q^d;q^d)_k^{2d}}q^{d^2 k} \equiv 0 \pmod{[n]\Phi_{n}(q)^3}.

The paper subsequently gives a proof of this conjecture, so it is included as a resolved claim rather than an open conjecture.

References

Primary source

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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