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In recent work, M. Schneider and the first author studied a curious class of integer partitions called "sequentially congruent" partitions: the $m$th part is congruent to the $(m+1)$th part modulo $m$, with the smallest part congruent to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Robert Schneider , James A. Sellers , Ian Wagner

A partition statistic ` crank' gives combinatorial interpretations for Ramanujan's famous partition congruences. In this paper, we establish an asymptotic formula, Ramanujan type congruences, and q-series identities that the number of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dohoon Choi , Soon-Yi Kang , Jeremy Lovejoy

The enumeration $d_k(n)$ of $k$-elongated plane partition diamonds has emerged as a generalization of the classical integer partition function $p(n)$. Congruences for $d_k(n)$ modulo certain powers of primes have been proven via elementary…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Dandan Chen , Tianjian Xu , Siyu Yin

New identities and congruences involving the ranks and cranks of partitions are proved. The proof depends on a new partial differential equation connecting their generating functions.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. O. L. Atkin , F. G. Garvan

The partition function is known to exhibit beautiful congruences that are often proved using the theory of modular forms. In this paper, we study the extent to which these congruence results apply to the generalized Frobenius partitions…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Marie Jameson , Maggie Wieczorek

Let $p_{k}(n)$ be the coefficient of $q^n$ in the series expansion of $(q;q)_{\infty}^{k}$. It is known that the partition function $p(n)$, which corresponds to the case when $k=-1$, satisfies congruences such as $p(5n+4)\equiv 0\pmod{5}$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Heng Huat Chan , Liuquan Wang

In 1919, Ramanujan discovered his famous congruences for the partition function. Not too long after, Freeman Dyson conjectured a combinatorial statistic existed that explained the three congruences, which he dubbed the \textit{crank}. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Samuel Wilson

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

Recently the author introduced two new integer partition quadruple functions, which satisfy Ramanujan-type congruences modulo $3$, $5$, $7$, and $13$. Here we reprove the congruences modulo $3$, $5$, and $7$ by defining a rank-type…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Chris Jennings-Shaffer

We obtain congruences for the number a(n) of cubic partitions using modular forms. The notion of cubic partitions is introduced by Chan and named by Kim in connection with Ramanujan's cubic continued fractions. Chan has shown that a(n) has…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-10-08 William Y. C. Chen , Bernard L. S. Lin

It is well known that Ramanujan conjectured congruences modulo powers of 5, 7 and and 11 for the partition function. These were subsequently proved by Watson (1938) and Atkin (1967). In 2009 Choi, Kang, and Lovejoy proved congruences modulo…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Dandan Chen , Rong Chen , Frank Garvan

Stanley generalized MacMahon's classical theorem by proving a product formula for the norm-trace generating function for plane partition with unbounded parts. In his recent work on biothorgonal polynomials, Kamioka proved a finite analogue…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Tri Lai

In this paper, motivated by the work of Mahlburg, we find congruences for a large class of modular forms. Moreover, we generalize the generating function of the Andrews-Garvan-Dyson crank on partition and establish several new infinite…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Hao Zhang , Helen W. J. Zhang

The theory of partition congruences has been a fascinating and difficult subject for over a century now. In attempting to prove a given congruence family, multiple possible complications include the genus of the underlying modular curve,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Nicolas Allen Smoot

In his 1984 AMS Memoir, George Andrews defined the family of $k$--colored generalized Frobenius partition functions. These are denoted by $c\phi_k(n)$ where $k\geq 1$ is the number of colors in question. In that Memoir, Andrews proved…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Frank G. Garvan , James A. Sellers

In this paper, we investigate the arithmetic properties of the difference between the number of partitions of a positive integer $n$ with even crank and those with odd crank, denoted $C(n)=c_e(n)-c_o(n)$. Inspired by Ramanujan's classical…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Tewodros Amdeberhan , Mircea Merca

Using elementary methods, we prove new formulas for $\operatorname{pp}(n)$, the number of plane partitions of $n$, $\operatorname{pp}_r(n)$, the number of plane partitions of $n$ with at most $r$ rows, $\operatorname{pp}^s(n)$, the number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Mircea Cimpoeas , Alexandra Teodor

In the paper, we give partition-theoretic results for the coefficients of some mock theta functions and prove their congruence properties. Some recurrence relations connecting the coefficients of the mock theta functions with certain…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Sabi Biswas , Nipen Saikia

We prove several Ramanujan-type congruences modulo powers of $5$ for partition $k$-tuples with $5$-cores, for $k=2, 3, 4$. We also prove some new infinite families of congruences modulo powers of primes for $k$-tuples with $p$-cores, where…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Manjil P. Saikia , Abhishek Sarma , Pranjal Talukdar

A new combinatorial object is introduced, the part-frequency matrix sequence of a partition, which is elementary to describe and is naturally motivated by Glaisher's bijection. We prove results that suggest surprising usefulness for such a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-06 William J. Keith