On Wolstenholmeʹs theorem and its converse Original Research Article

For any positive integer n, let image. Wolstenholme proved that if p is a prime greater-or-equal, slanted5, then image. The converse of Wolstenholmeʹs theorem, which has been conjectured to be true, remains an open problem. In this article, we establish several relations and congruences satisfied by the numbers wn, and we deduce that this converse holds for many infinite families of composite integers n. In passing, we obtain a number of congruences satisfied by certain classes of binomial coefficients, and involving the Bernoulli numbers.