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Supercongruences between truncated hypergeometric functions and their Gaussian analogs
Author:
Eric Mortenson
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 355 (2003), 987-1007
MSC (2000):
Primary 11F85, 11L10
Posted:
October 25, 2002
MathSciNet review:
1938742
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Abstract: Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas has conjectured a number of supercongruences for hypergeometric Calabi-Yau manifolds of dimension . For manifolds of dimension , he observed four potential supercongruences. Later the author proved one of the four. Motivated by Rodriguez-Villegas's work, in the present paper we prove a general result on supercongruences between values of truncated hypergeometric functions and Gaussian hypergeometric functions. As a corollary to that result, we prove the three remaining supercongruences.
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Eric Mortenson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Email:
mort@math.wisc.edu
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-02-03172-0
PII:
S 0002-9947(02)03172-0
Keywords:
Supercongruences
Received by editor(s):
February 27, 2002
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
July 22, 2002
Posted:
October 25, 2002
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