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A bijection proof of Andrews-Merca integer partition theorem

Combinatorics 2024-06-07 v4 Number Theory

Abstract

Andrews and Merca [J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 203 (2024), Art. 105849] recently obtained two interesting results on the sum of the parts with the same parity in the partitions of nn (the modulo 22 case), the proof of which relies on generating functions. Motivated by Andrews and Merca's results, we define six statistics related to the partitions of nn and show that the two triples of the six statistics are equidistributed. From this equidistributed result, we derive modulo mm extensions of Andrews and Merca's results for all integers m2m\ge 2. The proof of the main result is based on a general bijection on the set of partitions of nn.

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@article{arxiv.2405.00063,
  title  = {A bijection proof of Andrews-Merca integer partition theorem},
  author = {Ji-Cai Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00063},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

The bijection constructed in this paper already exists in the known literature

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