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Recently, Andrews, Chan, Kim and Osburn introduced the even strings and the odd strings in the overpartitions. We show that their conjecture $A_k (n) \geq B_k (n)$ holds for large enough positive integers n, where A_k(n) (resp. B_k(n)) is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Byungchan Kim , Eunmi Kim , Jeehyeon Seo

In 1984, Bressoud and Subbarao obtained an interesting weighted partition identity for a generalized divisor function, by means of combinatorial arguments. Recently, the last three named authors found an analytic proof of the aforementioned…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Archit Agarwal , Subhash Chand Bhoria , Pramod Eyyunni , Bibekananda Maji

An identity is proved connecting two finite sums of inverse tangents. This identity is discretized version of Jacobi's imaginary transformation for the modular angle from the theory of elliptic functions. Some other related identities are…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Martin Nicholson

Using sequences of finite length with positive integer elements and the inversion statistic on such sequences, a collection of binomial and multinomial identities are extended to their $q$-analog form via combinatorial proofs. Using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Adrian Avalos , Mark Bly

Using multiple q-integrals and a determinant evaluation, we establish a multivariable extension of Bailey's nonterminating 10-phi-9 transformation. From this result, we deduce new multivariable terminating 10-phi-9 transformations, 8-phi-7…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Hjalmar Rosengren , Michael Schlosser

We prove the following theorem: for all positive integers $b$ there exists a positive integer $k$, such that for every finite set $A$ of integers with cardinality $|A| > 1$, we have either $$ |A + ... + A| \geq |A|^b$$ or $$ |A \cdot ...…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean Bourgain , Mei-Chu Chang

In this paper we construct a new q-Euler numbers and polynomials. By using these numbers and polynomials, we give the interesting formulae related to alternating sums of powers of consecutive q-integers following an idea due to Euler.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Kim

The $k$-measure of an integer partition was recently introduced by Andrews, Bhattacharjee and Dastidar. In this paper, we establish trivariate generating function identities counting both the length and the $k$-measure for partitions and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-06 George E. Andrews , Shane Chern , Zhitai Li

Taking inspiration from the work of Lanphier \cite{LANPHIER2022125716}, a generalized multivariable polynomial formulation for sums of alternating powers is given, as well as analogous sums. Furthermore, an analog of the Euler-Maclaurin…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Brian Nguyen

We seek simple conditions on a pair of labeled posets that determine when the difference of their $(P,\omega)$-partition enumerators is $F$-positive, i.e., positive in Gessel's fundamental basis. This is a quasisymmetric analogue of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Nathan R. T. Lesnevich , Peter R. W. McNamara

Let $m$, $r$ and $n$ be positive integers. We denote by ${\bf k}\vdash n$ any tuple of odd positive integers ${\bf k}=(k_1,\dots,k_t)$ such that $k_1+\dots+k_t=n$ and $k_j\ge 3$ for all $j$. In this paper we prove that for every…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Kevin Chen , Jianqiang Zhao

We give a new identity involving Bernoulli polynomials and combinatorial numbers. This provides, in particular, a Faulhaber-like formula for sums of the form $1^m (n-1)^m + 2^m (n-2)^m + \cdots + (n-1)^m 1^m$ for positive integers $m$ and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Fernando Barbero G. , Juan Margalef-Bentabol , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

Let $M$ be a positive integer and $p(n)$ be the number of partitions of a positive integer $n$. Newman's Conjecture asserts that for each integer $r$, there are infinitely many positive integers $n$ such that \[ p(n)\equiv r \pmod{M}. \]…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Dohoon Choi , Youngmin Lee

We study the Schur polynomial expansion of a family of symmetric polynomials related to the refined enumeration of alternating sign matrices with respect to their inversion number, complementary inversion number and the position of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Florian Aigner , Ilse Fischer , Matjaž Konvalinka , Philippe Nadeau , Vasu Tewari

For any integer $x$, let $T_x$ denote the triangular number $\frac{x(x+1)}{2}$. In this paper we give a complete characterization of all the triples of positive integers $(\alpha, \beta, \gamma)$ for which the ternary sums $\alpha x^2…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-01-19 Wai Kiu Chan , Anna Haensch

Let $p$ be a prime and ${\mathfrak P}_p$ the set of positive integers which are prime to $p$. Recently, Wang and Cai proved that for every positive integer $r$ and prime $p>2$ $$ \sum_{\substack{i+j+k=p^r\\ i,j,k\in{\mathfrak P}_p}}…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Jianqiang Zhao

This work follows the spirit of Andrews' series of papers on Partition Analysis. In $2011$, Savage and Sills found new sum sides for the little G\"ollnitz identities and provided their partition interpretations. It turns out that similar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Runqiao Li

Stirling number of the first and the second kinds have seen many generalizations and applications in various areas of mathematics. We introduce some combinatorial parameters which realize $q$-analogues and Broder's $r$-variants of Stirling…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Eli Bagno , David Garber

In this article we describe all possible infinite linear configurations that can be found in a shift of any set of positive upper Banach density. This simultaneously generalizes Szemer\'edi's theorem on arithmetic progressions and the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Felipe Hernández

In this paper we offer some new identities associated with mock theta functions and establish new Bailey pairs related to indefinite quadratic forms. We believe our proof is instructive use of changing base of Bailey pairs, and offers new…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Alexander E Patkowski