Supercongruences and truncated hypergeometric series

He, Bing

doi:10.1090/proc/13305

Supercongruences and truncated hypergeometric series
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by Bing He

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 145 (2017), 501-508

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13305

Published electronically: August 18, 2016

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Abstract:

We employ the $p$-adic Gamma function and some formulas on hypergeometric series to establish several new supercongruences.

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