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Supercongruences on Truncated Hypergeometric Series

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In this paper, we use p-adic Gamma function and certain formulas on hypergeometric series to establish several new supercongruences. In particular, we give a generalization of a p-adic supercongruence conjecture due to van Hamme and Swisher.

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He, B. Supercongruences on Truncated Hypergeometric Series. Results Math 72, 303–317 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-016-0635-7

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