Equality conjecture for two truncated hypergeometric sums

Let pp be an odd prime and let rr be a positive integer. Equality conjecture. One should have

k=0(pr1)/2(4k+1)(12)k4k!4k=0pr1(3k+1)(12)k3k!322k(modpr+4).\sum_{k=0}^{(p^r-1)/2}(4k+1)\frac{(\frac12)_k^4}{k!^4} \equiv \sum_{k=0}^{p^r-1}(3k+1)\frac{(\frac12)_k^3}{k!^3}2^{2k} \pmod{p^{r+4}}.

The conjecture is proposed because both sides are predicted to have the same Bernoulli-number expansion for p>3p>3, and the source notes that it also applies when p=3p=3.

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Primary source

Victor J. W. Guo, “q-Supercongruences modulo the fourth power of a cyclotomic polynomial via creative microscoping”, arXiv:1912.00765 (2019).

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