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An infinite family of overpartition congruences mod powers of 2

Number Theory 2025-10-24 v1

Abstract

We prove an infinite family of Hecke-like congruences for the overpartition function modulo powers of 2. Starting from a recent identity of Garvan and Morrow and iterating Atkin's U2U_2 operator, we determine lower bounds on the 2-adic valuations of the coefficients that arise at each step. Our approach yields new modular equations relating the Hauptmoduln G2G_2 on Γ0(2)\Gamma_0(2) and G8G_8 on Γ0(8)\Gamma_0(8), together with explicit U2U_2-action formulas.

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@article{arxiv.2510.20175,
  title  = {An infinite family of overpartition congruences mod powers of 2},
  author = {Zhumagali Shomanov and Frank Garvan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.20175},
  year   = {2025}
}

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