{ "id": "2106.13613", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-06-25T13:06:23.000Z", "updated": "2021-06-25T13:06:23.000Z", "title": "On the divisibility of $q$-trinomial coefficients", "authors": [ "Ji-Cai Liu" ], "comment": "8 pages", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We establish a congruence on sums of central $q$-binomial coefficients. From this $q$-congruence, we derive the divisibility of the $q$-trinomial coefficients introduced by Andrews and Baxter.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2021-06-25T13:06:23.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05A10", "11A07", "11B65", "13A05" ], "keywords": [ "trinomial coefficients", "divisibility", "congruence" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }