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In this paper, we prove several new infinite families of Ramanujan--like congruences satisfied by the coefficients of the generating function $U_t(a,q)$ which is an extension of MacMahon's generalized sum-of-divisors function. As a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-03 James A. Sellers , Roberto Tauraso

Recently, Ballantine and Welch considered various generalizations and refinements of POD and PED partitions. These are integer partitions wherein the odd parts must be distinct (in the case of POD partitions) or the even parts must be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-30 James A. Sellers

Let $b^{k}_{\ell,m}(n)$ denotes the number of $k-$colored partitions of $n$ into parts that are not multiples of $\ell$ or $m$. We establish several congruence relations for $b_{\ell,m}(n)$. For instance, for any nonnegative integer $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yashas N. , C. Shivashankar , S. Chandankumar

In 2015 Cristian-Silviu Radu designed an algorithm to detect identities of a class studied by Ramanujan and Kolberg. This class includes the famous identities by Ramanujan which provide a witness to the divisibility properties of $p(5n+4),$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Nicolas Allen Smoot

Ramanujan's celebrated congruences of the partition function $p(n)$ have inspired a vast amount of results on various partition functions. Kwong's work on periodicity of rational polynomial functions yields a general theorem used to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Matthew S. Mizuhara , James A. Sellers , Holly Swisher

Let $a_3(n)$ and $a_9(n)$ are 3 and 9-regular cubic partitions of $n$. In this paper, we find the infinite family of congruences modulo powers of 3 for $a_3(n)$ and $a_9(n)$ such as \[a_3\left (3^{2\alpha}n+\frac{3^{2\alpha}-1}{4}\right…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-02 D. S. Gireesh , M. S. Mahadeva Naika , Shivashankar C

Let $p_r(n)$ denote the number of $r$-component multipartitions of $n$, and let $S_{\gamma,\lambda}$ be the space spanned by $\eta(24z)^\gamma \phi(24z)$, where $\eta(z)$ is the Dedekind's eta function and $\phi(z)$ is a holomorphic modular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-29 William Y. C. Chen , Daniel K. Du , Qing-Hu Hou , Lisa H. Sun

Recently there has been quite a bit of study carried out related to arithmetic properties of overpartitions into non-multiples of two co-prime integers. The paper [19] by Nadji et al. looked into congruences modulo $3$ and powers of $2$ for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Suparno Ghoshal , Arijit Jana

Two level 17 modular functions $$ r=q^{2}\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}(1-q^{n})^{\left(\frac{n}{17}\right)},\quad s=q^{2}\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(1-q^{17n})^{3}}{(1-q^{n})^{3}}, $$ are used to construct a new class of Ramanujan-Sato series for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Tim Huber , Dan Schultz , Dongxi Ye

We denote the number of partitions of $n$ wherein the even parts are distinct (and the odd parts are unrestricted) by $ped(n)$. In this paper, we will use generating function manipulations to obtain new congruences for $ped(n)$ modulo $24$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Hemjyoti Nath

Let ${{B}_{3}}(n)$ denote the number of partition triples of $n$ where each partition is 3-core. With the help of generating function manipulations, we find several infinite families of arithmetic identities and congruences for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Liuquan Wang

Let $\mathrm{pod}_{-4}(n)$ denote the number of partition quadruples of $n$ where the odd parts in each partition are distinct. We find many arithmetic properties of $\mathrm{pod}_{-4}(n)$ involving the following infinite family of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Liuquan Wang

The partition function $ p_{[1^c\ell^d]}(n)$ can be defined using the generating function, \[\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}p_{[1^c{\ell}^d]}(n)q^n=\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\dfrac{1}{(1-q^n)^c(1-q^{\ell n})^d}.\] In \cite{P}, we proved infinite family of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Shashika Petta Mestrige

We consider properties of overpartitions that are simultaneously {\ell}-regular and {\mu}-regular, where {\ell} and {\mu} are positive relatively prime integers. We prove a seven-way combinatorial identity related to these overpartitions.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Abdulaziz M. Alanazi , Augustine O. Munagi , Manjil P. Saikia

A partition of $n$ is called a $t$-core partition if none of its hook number is divisible by $t.$ In 2019, Hirschhorn and Sellers \cite{Hirs2019} obtained a parity result for $3$-core partition function $a_3(n)$. Motivated by this result,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Ankita Jindal , Nabin Kumar Meher

The restricted partition function $p_{N}(n)$ counts the partitions of $n$ into at most $N$ parts. In the nineteenth century Sylvester showed that these partitions can be expressed as a sum of $k$-periodic quasi-polynomials ($1\leq k\leq N$)…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-22 N. Uday Kiran

Let $\overline{bt}(n)$ denote the number of overcubic partition triples of $n$. Nayaka, Dharmendra and Kumar proved some congruences modulo 8, 16 and 32 for $\overline{bt}(n)$. Recently, Saikia and Sarma established some congruences modulo…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Jiayu Chen , Jing Jin , Olivia X. M. Yao

Schur's partition theorem states that the number of partitions of n into distinct parts congruent 1, 2 (mod 3) equals the number of partitions of n into parts which differ by >= 3, where the inequality is strict if a part is a multiple of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Alladi , A. Berkovich

Recently, Nayaka and Naika (2022) proved several congruences modulo $16$ and $32$ for $t$-colored overpartitions with $t=5,7,11$ and $13$. We extend their list using an algorithmic technique.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Manjil P. Saikia

Hirschhorn and Sellers studied arithmetic properties of the number of partitions with odd parts distinct. In another direction, Hammond and Lewis investigated arithmetic properties of the number of bipartitions. In this paper, we consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-06 William Y. C. Chen , Bernard L. S. Lin