Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
6415544 Journal of Number Theory 2013 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

In 1938, as part of a wider study, Emma Lehmer derived a set of four related congruences for certain sums of reciprocals over various ranges, modulo squares of odd primes. These were recently extended to congruences modulo squares of positive integers n, with certain restrictions on n. In this paper we characterize those excluded n for which the congruences still hold, and find the correct reduced moduli in the cases in which the congruences do not hold.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory
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