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Supercongruences between truncated $_{2}F_{1}$ hypergeometric functions and their Gaussian analogs

Author(s): Eric Mortenson
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 355 (2003), 987-1007.
MSC (2000): Primary 11F85, 11L10
Posted: October 25, 2002
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Abstract: Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas has conjectured a number of supercongruences for hypergeometric Calabi-Yau manifolds of dimension $d\le 3$. For manifolds of dimension $d=1$, 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 $_{2}F_{1}$hypergeometric functions and Gaussian hypergeometric functions. As a corollary to that result, we prove the three remaining supercongruences.


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Additional Information:

Eric Mortenson
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Email: mort@math.wisc.edu

DOI: 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
Copyright of article: Copyright 2002, American Mathematical Society


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