A fifth-power q-congruence for the convolution in Theorem 4

Let nn be a positive odd integer, and let cq(k)c_q(k) be the sequence defined in Theorem 4. Let [n][n] denote the qq-integer and let Φn(q)\Phi_n(q) denote the nnth cyclotomic polynomial. The conjectural generalization.

k=0n1j=0kcq(j)cq(kj)q1n[n]2+(n21)(1q)212q[n]4(mod[n]2Φn(q)3).\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}\sum_{j=0}^{k}c_q(j)c_q(k-j) \equiv q^{1-n}[n]^2+\frac{(n^2-1)(1-q)^2}{12}q[n]^4 \pmod{[n]^2\Phi_n(q)^3}.

The modulus contains the fifth power of a cyclotomic polynomial after accounting for the qq-integer factor, and the source describes this type of congruence as difficult and unsolved.

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Victor J. W. Guo and Long Li, “q-Supercongruences from squares of basic hypergeometric series”, arXiv:2112.12076 (2021).

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