Proof of Some Congruence Conjectures of Z.-H. Sun

Abstract

In this paper, we mainly prove some conjectural congruences of Z.-H. Sun involving Almkvist–Zudilin numbers

b_n = \sum _{k=0}^{\lfloor \frac{n}{3}\rfloor } \left(\begin{array}{c}2k\\ k\end{array}\right)\left(\begin{array}{c}3k\\ k\end{array}\right) \left(\begin{array}{c}n\\ 3k\end{array}\right) \left(\begin{array}{c}n+k\\ k\end{array}\right) {\left(-3\right)}^{n-3k} .

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Let p > 3 be a prime. If p ≡ 3 (mod 4), then

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