Congruences of concave composition functions
Number Theory
2014-07-07 v1
Abstract
Concave compositions are ordered partitions whose parts are decreasing towards a central part. We study the distribution modulo of the number of concave compositions. Let be the number of concave compositions of having even length. It is easy to see that is even for all . Refining this fact, we prove that and also that for every and at least two distinct values of , We obtain similar results for concave compositions of odd length.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.1297,
title = {Congruences of concave composition functions},
author = {Keenan Monks and Lynnelle Ye},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.1297},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
7 pages; preprint of article published in INTEGERS