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Some conjectural congruences involving Domb numbers

The Domb numbers are given by $$D_n=\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}^2\binom{2k}k\binom{2(n-k)}{n-k}\ \ \ (n=0,1,2,\ldots).$$ Such numbers have combinatorial interpretation, see, e.g., http://oeis.org/A002895....
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Is every integer $n>1$ the sum of two squares and two central binomial coefficients?

Those integers $\binom{2n}n\ (n=0,1,2,\ldots)$ are called central binomial coefficients. By Stirling's formula, $$\binom{2n}n\sim \frac{4^n}{\sqrt{n\pi}}\ \ \ \ (n\to+\infty).$$ Of course, the ...
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Polynomials with presumably positive coefficients

The $q$-Pochhammer symbol $(q) _ 0:=1$ and $(q) _ n:=\prod _ {j=1}^n (1-q^j)$ for $n > 0$ is clearly a polynomial in $q$ which has both positive and negative coefficients when $n>0$. The $q$-...
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For all $n\in \mathbb{N}$, How to find $\min\{ m+k\}$ such that $ \binom{m}{k}=n$?

I asked this question on MSE here. Most numbers in pascal triangle appear only once (excluding the duplicates in the same row of the Pascal's triangle) but certain numbers appear multiple times. ...
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Two conjectural congruences for Franel numbers

Recall that the Franel numbers are given by $$f_n:=\sum_{k=0}^n \binom{n}{k}^3\ \ \ (n=0,1,\ldots).$$ Question. How to prove my following conjecture? Conjecture. For each odd prime $p$, we have $$\...
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Flat polynomials with factors of big height

Let $p(x)$ be a polynomial of degree $n$ with all coefficients in $\{-1,0,1\}$ (such polynomials are sometimes called flat). I am wondering how big the coefficients of a factor of $p$ can be. Call ...
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Combinatorial interpretation of inverse modulo $2$ binomial transform of A284005

My question is related to the following: Sum with products turned into subsequences We have an identity $$a(n, -1) = \sum\limits_{j=0}^{2^{\operatorname{wt}(n)}-1}(-1)^{\operatorname{wt}(n)-\...
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Integer coefficients such that $T(n,k)=R(n,k)-R(n,k-1)$

Let $a(n)$ be A000085, i.e., the number of self-inverse permutations on $n$ letters, also known as involutions; number of standard Young tableaux with $n$ cells. Here $$a(n) = a(n-1) + (n-1)a(n-2), a(...
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Two conjectures about generalised A329369

Let $m \geqslant 2$ be a fixed integer. Let $$\operatorname{wt}(n,m)=\operatorname{wt}\left(\left\lfloor\frac{n}{m}\right\rfloor,m\right)+n\bmod m, \operatorname{wt}(0,m)=0$$ Then we have an integer ...
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Alternating sum of integer coefficients of the triangles related to Eulerian numbers and binomial transforms

Let $W(n, k, m)$ be an integer coefficients defined for $n > 0, 1 \leqslant k \leqslant n, m > 0$ with $W(n,k,m)=0$ for $n \leqslant 0$ or $k \leqslant 0$ such that $$ W(n, k, m) = (k+m-1)W(n-1,...
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Inverse modulo $2$ binomial transform of generalised A284005

Let $m \geqslant 1$ be a fixed integer. Let $\operatorname{wt}(n)$ be A000120, $1$'s-counting sequence: number of $1$'s in binary expansion of $n$ (or the binary weight of $n$). Let $f(n)$ be A007814, ...
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Open tours by a biased rook (proof verification)

Related questions: Number of open tours by a biased rook on a specific $f(n)\times 1$ board which end on a $k$-th cell from the right Sum with products turned into subsequences Combinatorial ...
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How to prove the following equation (involving multiple binomial coefficients sum)?

I encountered the equation below, encountered a problem that has been bothering me for a long time Does anyone have an idea how to prove it? I would be extremely grateful to you if you come up with an ...
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Number of primes skipped by binomial coefficients?

Take $$B(l,n)=\binom{n+l}{n}$$ and $\mathcal P(t)=\{p\mbox{ prime}:p|t\}$. What is the cardinality of $\mathcal P(B(l,n))$? What is minimum cardinality of $L\subseteq\{1,\dots,n\}$ such that $$\...
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A question on the Faulhaber's formula

Proposition 1.1 For every integers $m,n\geq 0$ the following identity holds \begin{equation} n^{2m+1}=\sum_{k=1}^{n}\sum_{j=0}^m A_{m,j}k\strut^j(n-k)\strut^j=\sum_{k=0}^{m}(-1)^{m-k}U_m(n, k)\cdot n\...
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