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We here deduce some supercongruence results for certain sums involving rising factorials using a method similar to the WZ-method. As particular cases, we confirm certain recent conjectural supercongruence of Guo.
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The first author acknowledges the support received from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, through an INSPIRE Fellowship DST/INSPIRE Fellowship/2017/IF170327. The second author is partially supported by a project EMR/2016/005010 of SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, under Extra Mural Research Funding (Individual Centric).
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Jana, A., Kalita, G. On Some Conjectural Supercongruences for Sums Involving Certain Rising Factorials. Results Math 76, 155 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-021-01469-4
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