Beck-type identities: new combinatorial proofs and a theorem for parts congruent to $t$ mod $r$
Abstract
Let be the set of -regular partitions of , the set of partitions of with parts repeated at most times, the set of partitions with exactly one part (possibly repeated) divisible by , and let be the set of partitions in which exactly one part appears at least times. If is the excess in the number of parts congruent to in all partitions in over the number of different parts appearing at least times in all partitions in , then . We prove this analytically and combinatorially using a bijection due to Xiong and Keith. As a corollary, we obtain the first Beck-type identity, i.e., the excess in the number of parts in all partitions in over the number of parts in all partitions in equals and also . Our work provides a new combinatorial proof of this result that does not use Glaisher's bijection. We also give a new combinatorial proof based of the Xiong-Keith bijection for a second Beck-Type identity that has been proved previously using Glaisher's bijection.
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@article{arxiv.2011.08220,
title = {Beck-type identities: new combinatorial proofs and a theorem for parts congruent to $t$ mod $r$},
author = {Cristina Ballantine and Amanda Welch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.08220},
year = {2020}
}
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12 pages