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On $p$-adic valuations of colored $p$-ary partitions

Number Theory 2018-09-14 v1

Abstract

Let mN2m\in\N_{\geq 2} and for given kN+k\in\N_{+} consider the sequence (Am,k(n))nN(A_{m,k}(n))_{n\in\N} defined by the power series expansion n=01(1xmn)k=n=0Am,k(n)xn. \prod_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{\left(1-x^{m^{n}}\right)^{k}}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}A_{m,k}(n)x^{n}. The number Am,k(n)A_{m,k}(n) counts the number of representations of nn as sums of powers of mm, where each summand has one among kk colors. In this note we prove that for each pP3p\in\mathbb{P}_{\geq 3} and sN+s\in\N_{+}, the pp-adic valuation of the number Ap,(p1)(ps1)(n)A_{p,(p-1)(p^s-1)}(n) is equal to 1 for npsn\geq p^s. We also obtain some results concerning the behaviour of the sequence (νp(Ap,(p1)(ups1)(n)))nN(\nu_{p}(A_{p,(p-1)(up^s-1)}(n)))_{n\in\N} for fixed u{2,,p1}u\in\{2,\ldots,p-1\} and p3p\geq 3. Our results generalize the earlier findings obtained for p=2p=2 by Gawron, Miska and the first author.

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@article{arxiv.1809.04628,
  title  = {On $p$-adic valuations of colored $p$-ary partitions},
  author = {Maciej Ulas and Błażej Żmija},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04628},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, to appear in Monatshefte f\"{u}r Mathematik