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A375178 is an essentially identical sequence.
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V. Vaclav Kotesovec, <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Vaclav_Kotesovec">Asymptotic of generalized Apery sequences with powers of binomial coefficients</a>, Nov 04 2012
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Matthijs Coster, <a href="https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/301642554.pdf">Supercongruences</a>, Ph.D. thesis, Universiteit Leiden, Jun 08, 1988.
The supercongruence a(p-1) == 1 (mod p^5) appears to hold for all primes p >= 7 (checked up to p = 199). Coster, Theorem 4, proves that a(p-1) == 1 (mod p^3) for primes p >= 5.
a(p-1) == 1 (mod p^4) for odd prime p.
For r >= 2, the congruence supercongruence a(p^r - 1) == a(p^(r-1) - 1) (mod p^(3*r+3)) may hold for all primes p >= 7. (End)