Two curious q-supercongruences and their extensions

Abstract

We prove two single-parameter q-supercongruences which were recently conjectured by Guo, and establish their further extensions with one more parameter. Crucial ingredients in the proof are the terminating form of the q-binomial theorem, a Karlsson–Minton-type summation formula due to Gasper, and the method of “creative microscoping” developed by Guo and Zudilin. Incidentally, an assertion of Li, Tang and Wang is also confirmed by establishing its q-analogue.