Conjectural Bernoulli congruences for multiple harmonic sums of depths 8, 9, and 10

Let m=1,2m=1,2 and let pp be a prime with p11p\ge 11. For the multiple harmonic sums Rd(m)(p)R_d^{(m)}(p) and Bernoulli numbers BnB_n, the following congruences are conjectured:

Bernoulli congruences for R8(m)(p)R_8^{(m)}(p), R9(m)(p)R_9^{(m)}(p), and R10(m)(p)R_{10}^{(m)}(p).

R8(m)(p)1125m(m2+16)(m21)Bp3Bp5(modp),R_8^{(m)}(p)\equiv \frac{112}{5}m(m^2+16)(m^2-1) B_{p-3}B_{p-5} \pmod{p}, R9(m)(p)8!18(m+25)Bp338m(m6+126m4+1869m2+3044)Bp9(modp),R_9^{(m)}(p) \equiv -\frac{8!}{18}\binom{m+2}{5} B_{p-3}^3 -8m(m^6+126m^4+1869m^2+3044) B_{p-9} \pmod{p}, R10(m)(p)2435m(m4+71m2+540)(m21)(50Bp3Bp7+21Bp52)(modp).R_{10}^{(m)}(p) \equiv -\frac{24}{35}m(m^4+71m^2+540)(m^2-1)\left(50B_{p-3}B_{p-7}+21B_{p-5}^2\right)\pmod{p}.

These formulas are conjectured for the values of mm and pp specified above. The conjecture extends the paper's established congruences for lower depths and reflects numerical evidence suggesting explicit Bernoulli-number expressions at these depths; its general validity remains unproved.

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Megan McCoy, Kevin Thielen, Liuquan Wang and Jianqiang Zhao, “A Family of Supercongruences Involving Multiple Harmonic Sums”, arXiv:2101.08599 (2021).

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