Combinatorics/Number theory
On two congruence conjectures
[Sur deux conjectures de congruence]
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 357 (2019) no. 11-12, pp. 815-822.

Nous montrons dans cette Note une congruence conjecturée par M. Apagodu [3] et une supercongruence conjecturée par Z.-W. Sun [25].

In this paper, we mainly prove a congruence conjecture of M. Apagodu [3] and a supercongruence conjecture of Z.-W. Sun [25].

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crma.2019.11.004
Mao, Guo-Shuai 1 ; Cao, Zhi-Jian 2

1 Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, People's Republic of China
2 Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China
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Mao, Guo-Shuai; Cao, Zhi-Jian. On two congruence conjectures. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 357 (2019) no. 11-12, pp. 815-822. doi : 10.1016/j.crma.2019.11.004. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1016/j.crma.2019.11.004/

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