The Hubbard model and its extensions are important microscopic models for understanding high-
Tc superconductivity in cuprates. In the model with next-nearest-neighbor hopping ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ (the ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$-Hubbard model), pairing is strongly influenced by ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$. In particular, a recent study on a width-4 cylinder observed quasi-long-range superconducting order, associated with a negative ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$, which was taken to imply superconductivity in the two-dimensional (2D) limit. In this work we study more carefully pairing in the width-$4\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}{t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$-Hubbard model. We show that in this specific system, the pairing symmetry with ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}<0$ is not the ordinary
d-wave one would expect in the 2D limit. Instead we observe a so-called plaquette
d-wave pairing. We show that the plaquette
d-wave or its extension is difficult to generalize in other geometries, for example a 4-leg ladder with open boundaries or a width-6 cylinder. We find that a negative ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ suppresses the conventional
d-wave, leading to plaquette pairing. In contrast, a different ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}\ensuremath{'}}$ coupling acting diagonally on the plaquettes suppresses plaquette pairing, leading to conventional
d-wave pairing.
We analyze superconducting instabilities in 3D and 2D extended Hubbard model with Coulomb repulsion between electrons on neighboring sites in the limit of low electron density (n el → 0) on simple cubic (square) lattice. We show that in a realistic strong-coupling case U ≫ V ≫ W (U and V are the onsite and the intersite Coulomb repulsions, respectively, and W the bandwidth) the main SC instability corresponds to the p-wave pairing and in the leading order is correctly described by the equations obtained earlier in the absence of the intersite Coulomb interaction V = 0.