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 (the modulo 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 and show that the two triples of the six statistics are equidistributed. From this equidistributed result, we derive modulo extensions of Andrews and Merca's results for all integers . The proof of the main result is based on a general bijection on the set of partitions of .
Cite
@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