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In this report we will discuss special congruences. We explain how the congruences arise from formal groups and then we give some examples.
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Coster, M.J. (1990). Supercongruences. In: Baldassarri, F., Bosch, S., Dwork, B. (eds) p-adic Analysis. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1454. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0091139
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