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We solve the enumeration of the set $\textrm{AP}(n)$ of partitions of a positive integer $n$ in which the nondecreasing sequence of parts forms an arithmetic progression. In particular, we establish a formula for the number of nondecreasing…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-13 F. Javier de Vega

In this article we obtain an explicit formula in terms of the partitions of the positive integer $n$ to express the $n$-th term of a wide class of sequences of numbers defined by recursion. Our proof is based only on arithmetics. We compare…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-02 Giuseppe Fera , Vittorino Talamini

We study a problem of Douglass and Ono concerning the smallest integer $n$ such that the partition function $p(n)$ begins with a specified string of digits $f$ in base $b$. By employing an elementary discrepancy framework, we establish new…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Siddharth Iyer

This paper is concerned with the function $r_{k,s}(n)$, the number of (ordered) representations of $n$ as the sum of $s$ positive $k$-th powers, where integers $k,s\ge 2$. We examine the mean average of the function, or equivalently,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Pengyong Ding

In 1917, Hardy and Ramanujan obtained the asymptotic formula for the classical partition function $p(n)$. The classical partition function $p(n)$ has been extensively studied. Recently, Luca and Ralaivaosaona obtained the asymptotic formula…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Yong-Gao Chen , Ya-Li Li

Improving on some results of J.-L. Nicolas \cite {Ndeb}, the elements of the set ${\cal A}={\cal A}(1+z+z^3+z^4+z^5)$, for which the partition function $p({\cal A},n)$ (i.e. the number of partitions of $n$ with parts in ${\cal A}$) is even…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-23 Fethi Ben Said , Jean-Louis Nicolas , Ahlem Zekraoui

Building on work of Hardy and Ramanujan, Rademacher proved a well-known formula for the values of the ordinary partition function $p(n)$. More recently, Bruinier and Ono obtained an algebraic formula for these values. Here we study the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-07 Scott Ahlgren , Nickolas Andersen

Let A and M be nonempty sets of positive integers. A partition of the positive integer n with parts in A and multiplicities in M is a representation of n in the form n = \sum_{a\in A} m_a a, where m_a is in M U {0} for all a in A, and m_a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Zeljka Ljujic , Melvyn B. Nathanson

Partition functions for non-interacting particles are known to be symmetric functions. It is shown that powerful group-theoretical techniques can be used not only to derive these relationships, but also to significantly simplify calculation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. B. Balantekin

We make an application of ideas from partition theory to a problem in multiplicative number theory. We propose a deterministic model of prime number distribution, from first principles related to properties of integer partitions, that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Aidan Botkin , Madeline L. Dawsey , David J. Hemmer , Matthew R. Just , Robert Schneider

By jagged partitions we refer to an ordered collection of non-negative integers $(n_1,n_2,..., n_m)$ with $n_m\geq p$ for some positive integer $p$, further subject to some weakly decreasing conditions that prevent them for being genuine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. -F. Fortin , P. Jacob , P. Mathieu

Let $p_{\textrm{dsd}} (n)$ be the number of partitions of $n$ into distinct squarefree divisors of $n$. In this note, we find a lower bound for $p_{\textrm{dsd}} (n)$, as well as a sequence of $n$ for which $p_{\textrm{dsd}} (n)$ is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Noah Lebowitz-Lockard , Joseph Vandehey

We derive closed formulas for the number of $k$-coloured partitions and the number of plane partitions of $n$ in terms of the Bell polynomials.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Sumit Kumar Jha

We obtain a combinatorial proof of a surprising weighted partition equality of Berkovich and Uncu. Our proof naturally leads to a formula for the number of partitions with a given parity of the smallest part, in terms of S(i), the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Damanvir Singh Binner

I propose two simple ways of generating the partitions of (n+1) from the partitions of n. A recurrence relation for P(n+1), the number of partitions of (n+1), in terms of P(n) and Q(n), where Q(n) denotes the number of partitions of n…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dhananjay P. Mehendale

Following Cayley, MacMahon, and Sylvester, define a non-unitary partition to be an integer partition with no part equal to one, and let $\nu(n)$ denote the number of non-unitary partitions of size $n$. In a 2021 paper, the sixth author…

We calculate the partition function for "composite particles". For any finite number of states d, and in the following two cases: 1)all states have the same energy, 2)the energy is linearly distributed over the states, we transform the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bergère

Sometimes we need the approximate value of the partition number in a simple and efficient way. There are already several formulae to calculate the partition number p(n). But they are either inconvenient for most people (not majored in math)…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Wenwei Li

In this paper we present an extension of Stanley's theorem related to partitions of positive integers. Stanley's theorem states a relation between "the sum of the numbers of distinct members in the partitions of a positive integer $n$" and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Manosij Ghosh Dastidar , Sourav Sen Gupta

We describe how the Hardy-Ramanujan-Rademacher formula can be implemented to allow the partition function $p(n)$ to be computed with softly optimal complexity $O(n^{1/2+o(1)})$ and very little overhead. A new implementation based on these…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Fredrik Johansson