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Congruence families modulo powers of $7$ for $4$-colored generalized Frobenius partitions

Combinatorics 2025-09-30 v1

Abstract

In 2012, Peter Paule and Cristian-Silviu Radu proved an infinite family of Ramanujan type congruences for 22-colored Frobenius partitions cϕ2c\phi_2 introduced by George Andrews. Recently, Frank Garvan, James Sellers and Nicolas Smoot showed that this family of congruences is equivalent to the family of congruences for (2,0)(2,0)-colored Frobenius partitions cψ2,0c\psi_{2,0} introduced by Brian Drake and by Yuze Jiang, Larry Rolen and Michael Woodbury for the general case. Motivated by Garvan, Sellers and Smoot's work, Rong Chen and Xiao-Jie Zhu found modular transformations relating the cψk,βc\psi_{k,\beta} for fixed kk and varying β\beta. As an example, they proved a family of congruences for cψ3,1/2c\psi_{3,1/2} following Paule and Radu's work and then proved the equivalence between cψ3,1/2c\psi_{3,1/2} and cϕ3=cψ3,3/2c\phi_3=c\psi_{3,3/2}. In the present paper, we give a new example of Chen and Zhu's framework for cψ4,βc\psi_{4,\beta}. Our proof is considerably simpler.

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@article{arxiv.2509.23237,
  title  = {Congruence families modulo powers of $7$ for $4$-colored generalized Frobenius partitions},
  author = {Kangyu Wang and Yining Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23237},
  year   = {2025}
}

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16 pages. The two authors contributed equally to this work. Authors are listed in alphabetical order