Wolstenholme's theorem over Gaussian integers
This paper establishes an extension of Wolstenholme's theorem to the ring of Gaussian integers $\mathbb{Z}[i]$. For a prime $p > 5$, we prove that the sum $S_p$ of inverses of Gaussian integers in the set $\{n+mi \mid 1 \leq n, m \leq p-1, \gcd(p, n+mi)=1\}$ satisfies the congruence $S_p \equiv 0 \pmod{p^4}$. We further generalize this result to higher-power sums $S_p^{(k)}$, demonstrating structured divisibility patterns modulo powers of $p$. We propose some conjectures generalizing the connections between classical Wolstenholme's theorem and binomial coefficients. Special cases and irregularities for small primes ($p \leq 1000$) are explicitly computed and tabulated.
Authors
- Nikita Kalinin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1613-5175)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Functiones et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7169/facm/250713-21-7
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00