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In this paper, we completely determine the slopes and weights of the L-functions of an important class of exponential sums arising from analytic number theory. Our main tools include Adolphson-Sperber's work on toric exponential sums and…

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The 2-adic valuation of an integer n which is the exponent of the highest power of 2 that divides n. In this paper, we give representations of certain restricted partition functions in terms of 2-adic valuation.