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S-partitions

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

This note reports on the number of s-partitions of a natural number n. In an s-partition each cell has the form 2k12^k-1 for some integer k. Such partitions have potential applications in cryptography, specifically in distributed computations of the form ana^n mod m. The main contribution of this paper is a correction to the upper bound on the number of s-partitions presented by Bhatt. We will give a precise asymptotics for the number of such partitions for a given integer n.

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@article{arxiv.math/0110185,
  title  = {S-partitions},
  author = {William M. Y. Goh and Pawel Hitczenko and Ali Shokoufandeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0110185},
  year   = {2007}
}

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