CTcong.txt swMATH ID: 30553 Software Authors: Chen, William Y. C.; Hou, Qing-Hu; Zeilberger, Doron Description: Automated discovery and proof of congruence theorems for partial sums of combinatorial sequences. Many combinatorial sequences (e.g. the Catalan and the Motzkin numbers) may be expressed as the constant term of (P(x)^kQ(x)), for some Laurent polynomials (P(x)) and (Q(x)) in the variable (x) with integer coefficients. Denoting such a sequence by (a_k), we obtain a general formula that determines the congruence class, modulo (p), of the indefinite sum (sumlimits_{k=0}^{rp-1} a_k), for any prime (p), and any positive integer (r), as a linear combination of sequences that satisfy linear recurrence (alias difference) equations with constant coefficients. This enables us (or rather, our computers) to automatically discover and prove congruence theorems for such partial sums. Moreover, we show that in many cases, the set of the residues is finite, regardless of the prime (p). Homepage: http://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/tokhniot/CTcong.txt Dependencies: Maple Keywords: polynomials; combinatorial sequences; Legendre symbol; Laurent series Related Software: MultiZeilberger; qTSPP; ContMarkovWZ; MarkovAZ; MarkovWZ; OEIS Cited in: 5 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year Automated discovery and proof of congruence theorems for partial sums of combinatorial sequences. Zbl 1368.11020Chen, William Y. C.; Hou, Qing-Hu; Zeilberger, Doron 2016 all top 5 Cited by 6 Authors 2 Apagodu, Moa 2 Hou, Qinghu 2 Zeilberger, Doron 1 Chen, Shaoshi 1 Chen, William Yong-Chuan 1 Wang, Yushan Cited in 3 Serials 2 International Journal of Number Theory 1 American Mathematical Monthly 1 Journal of Difference Equations and Applications Cited in 3 Fields 4 Combinatorics (05-XX) 4 Number theory (11-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) Citations by Year