{ "id": "1602.02632", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-02-08T16:20:24.000Z", "updated": "2016-02-08T16:20:24.000Z", "title": "On p-adic approximation of sums of binomial coefficients", "authors": [ "Rustem R. Aidagulov", "Max A. Alekseyev" ], "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We propose higher-order generalizations of Jacobsthal's p-adic approximation for binomial coefficients. Our results imply explicit formulae for linear combinations of binomial coefficients $\\binom{ip}{p}$ (i=1,2,...) that are divisible by arbitrarily large powers of prime p.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-02-08T16:20:24.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05A10", "11A07", "11B65" ], "keywords": [ "binomial coefficients", "results imply explicit formulae", "jacobsthals p-adic approximation", "higher-order generalizations", "linear combinations" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }