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arxiv: 1703.00003 · v1 · pith:M7IGVK6Pnew · submitted 2017-02-28 · 🧮 math.NT · math.CO

Factors of alternating sums of powers of q-Narayana numbers

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The $q$-Narayana numbers $N_q(n,k)$ and $q$-Catalan numbers $C_n(q)$ are respectively defined by $$ N_q(n,k)=\frac{1-q}{1-q^n}{n\brack k}{n\brack k-1}\quad\text{and}\quad C_n(q)=\frac{1-q}{1-q^{n+1}}{2n\brack n}, $$ where ${n\brack k}=\prod_{i=1}^{k}\frac{1-q^{n-i+1}}{1-q^i}$. We prove that, for any positive integers $n$ and $r$, there holds \begin{align*} \sum_{k=-n}^{n}(-1)^{k}q^{jk^2+{k\choose 2}}N_q(2n+1,n+k+1)^r \equiv 0 \pmod{C_n(q)}, \end{align*} where $0\leqslant j\leqslant 2r-1$. We also propose several related conjectures.

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