Lucas congruences using modular forms

Publication date

2025-01

Authors

Beukers, F.ISNI 0000000350610029
Tsai, Wei Lun
Ye, Dongxi

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Abstract

In this work, we prove that many Apéry-like sequences arising from modular forms satisfy the Lucas congruences modulo any prime. As an implication, we completely affirm four conjectural Lucas congruences that were recently posed by S. Cooper and reinterpret a number of known results.

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Taverne, General Mathematics

Citation

Beukers, F, Tsai, W L & Ye, D 2025, 'Lucas congruences using modular forms', Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 69-78. https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.13182