A congruence involving harmonic sums modulo $p^αq^β$

In 2014, Wang and Cai established the following harmonic congruence for any odd prime $p$ and positive integer $r$, \begin{equation*} Z(p^{r})\equiv-2p^{r-1}B_{p-3} ~(\bmod ~ p^{r}), \end{equation*} where $Z(n)=\sum\limits_{i+j+k=n\atop{i,j,k\in\mathcal{P}_{n}}}\frac{1}{ijk}$ and $\mathcal{P}_{n}$ denote the set of positive integers which are prime to $n$. In this note, we obtain a congruence for distinct odd primes $p,~q$ and positive integers $α,~β$, \begin{equation*} Z(p^αq^β)\equiv 2(2-q)(1-\frac{1}{q^{3}})p^{α-1}q^{β-1}B_{p-3}\pmod{p^α} \end{equation*} and the necessary and sufficient condition for \begin{equation*} Z(p^αq^β)\equiv 0\pmod{p^αq^β}. \end{equation*} Finally, we raise a conjecture that for $n>1$ and odd prime power $p^α||n$, $α\geq1$, \begin{eqnarray} \nonumber Z(n)\equiv \prod\limits_{q|n\atop{q\neq p}}(1-\frac{2}{q})(1-\frac{1}{q^{3}})(-\frac{2n}{p})B_{p-3}\pmod{p^α}. \end{eqnarray}

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