Download or read book On Dwork's $p$-Adic Formal Congruences Theorem and Hypergeometric Mirror Maps written by E. Delaygue and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Dwork's theory, the authors prove a broad generalization of his famous -adic formal congruences theorem. This enables them to prove certain -adic congruences for the generalized hypergeometric series with rational parameters; in particular, they hold for any prime number and not only for almost all primes. Furthermore, using Christol's functions, the authors provide an explicit formula for the “Eisenstein constant” of any hypergeometric series with rational parameters. As an application of these results, the authors obtain an arithmetic statement “on average” of a new type concerning the integrality of Taylor coefficients of the associated mirror maps. It contains all the similar univariate integrality results in the literature, with the exception of certain refinements that hold only in very particular cases.