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On sums involving products of three binomial coefficients

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arxiv 1012.3141 v6 pith:EKL7WWI5 submitted 2010-12-14 math.NT math.CO

On sums involving products of three binomial coefficients

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In this paper we mainly employ the Zeilberger algorithm to study congruences for sums of terms involving products of three binomial coefficients. Let $p>3$ be a prime. We prove that $$\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{\binom{2k}k^2\binom{2k}{k+d}}{64^k}\equiv 0\pmod{p^2}$$ for all $d\in\{0,\ldots,p-1\}$ with $d\equiv (p+1)/2\pmod2$. If $p\equiv 1\pmod4$ and $p=x^2+y^2$ with $x\equiv 1\pmod4$ and $y\equiv 0\pmod2$, then we show $$\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{\binom{2k}k^2\binom{2k}{k+1}}{(-8)^k}\equiv 2p-2x^2\pmod{p^2}\ \ \mbox{and}\ \ \sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{\binom{2k}k\binom{2k}{k+1}^2}{(-8)^k}\equiv-2p\pmod{p^2}$$ by means of determining $x$ mod $p^2$ via $$(-1)^{(p-1)/4}\,x\equiv\sum_{k=0}^{(p-1)/2}\frac{k+1}{8^k}\binom{2k}k^2\equiv\sum_{k=0}^{(p-1)/2}\frac{2k+1}{(-16)^k}\binom{2k}k^2\pmod{p^2}.$$ We also solve the remaining open cases of Rodriguez-Villegas' conjectural congruences on $$\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{\binom{2k}k^2\binom{3k}k}{108^k},\ \ \sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{\binom{2k}k^2\binom{4k}{2k}}{256^k}, \ \ \sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{\binom{2k}{k}\binom{3k}k\binom{6k}{3k}}{12^{3k}}$$ modulo $p^2$.

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