A new extension of the Sun-Zagier result involving Bell numbers and derangement numbers
Abstract: Let $p$ be any prime and let $a$ and $n$ be positive integers with $p\nmid n$. We show that $$\sum_{k=1}{pa-1}\frac{B_k}{(-n)k}\equiv a(-1){n-1}D_{n-1}\pmod {p},$$ where $B_0,B_1,\ldots$ are the Bell numbers and $D_0,D_1,\ldots$ are the derangement numbers. This extends a result of Sun and Zagier published in 2011. Furthermore, we prove that $$(-x)n\sum_{k=1}{pa-1}\frac{B_k(x)}{(-n)k}\equiv -\sum_{r=1}ax{pr}\sum_{k=0}{n-1}\frac{(n-1)!}{k!}(-x)k\pmod{p\mathbb Z_p[x]},$$ where $B_k(x)=\sum_{l=0}kS(k,l)xl$ is the Bell polynomial of degree $k$ with $S(k,l)\ (0\le l\le k)$ the Stirling numbers of the second kind, and $\mathbb Z_p$ is the ring of all $p$-adic integers.
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