Kummer bridge for the Concrete Mathematics GKP conjecture.
This file owns the central-binomial digit-excess lemmas used by the active GKP attack. Earlier versions imported these lemmas from the retired Erdos117 squarefree-central-binomial scaffold. Keeping them here makes the ConcreteMath module self-contained around its actual open target.
Kummer digit-excess form for central binomial coefficients #
General p-adic formula for central binomial coefficients.
For any prime p,
(p - 1) * ν_p(C(2n,n)) = 2 * S_p(n) - S_p(2n), where S_p
is the sum of base-p digits. This is Kummer's theorem specialized to
Nat.centralBinom.
p^m divides Nat.centralBinom n from a Kummer digit bound.
If 2 * S_p(n) - S_p(2n) ≥ (p - 1) * m, then p^m ∣ C(2n,n).
This is the reusable bridge from digit/carry certificates to
central-binomial divisibility.
The ternary specialization of the central-binomial digit-excess formula.