Central binomial sum $a(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n (-4)^k \binom{n}{k}^2 \binom{n-k}{k}^2$

formal-conjectures · oeis · ams-11

The sequence is defined by
$$a(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n (-4)^k \binom{n}{k}^2 \binom{n-k}{k}^2.$$

If $p$ is a prime with $p \equiv 1, 9 \pmod{20}$ and $p = x^2 + 5y^2$ with $x, y$ integers,
then $\sum_{k=0}^{p-1} a(k) \equiv 4x^2 - 2p \pmod{p^2}$.
- _Zhi-Wei Sun_, Jul 01 2010

Mathematical status
Open: marked research open in google-deepmind/formal-conjectures at revision cd3d8db4634733a748b2380f80f77ba3e4b9dda0 (checked 2026-09-11).

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Sources and provenance
Upstream reference cited by formal-conjectures (checked 2026-09-11): https://oeis.org/A179524
Upstream reference cited by formal-conjectures (checked 2026-09-11): https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.5665
Formal statement provenance (Apache-2.0) (checked 2026-09-11): https://github.com/google-deepmind/formal-conjectures/blob/cd3d8db4634733a748b2380f80f77ba3e4b9dda0/FormalConjectures/OEIS/179524.lean
Local target: Corpus.OEIS179524.conjecture1
Source SHA-256: 9e1ff8b0310c7835e3fa45b50f0cdbdd6404588ba648ba0e76107605a3b30fcc
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