supercongruence

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noun

A congruence modulo some power of a prime

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Meanings

nounsupercongruence (plural supercongruences)

plural supercongruences

  1. mathematicsA congruence modulo some power of a prime

    Mortenson \cite{mortenson2} using the theory of Gaussian hypergeometric series follows from one of our more general supercongruence..

    2015, Rupam Barman, Neelam Saikia, “Supercongruences for truncated hypergeometric series and p-adic gamma function”, in arXiv

Origin

From super- + congruence.

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