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In 2007, Andrews and Paule published the eleventh paper in their series on MacMahon's partition analysis, with a particular focus on broken $k$-diamond partitions. On the way to broken $k$-diamond partitions, Andrews and Paule introduced…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Robson da Silva , Michael D. Hirschhorn , James A. Sellers

Andrews and Paule revisited combinatorial structures known as the $k$-elongated partition diamonds, which were introduced in connection with the study of the broken $k$-diamond partitions. They found the generating function for the number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Russelle Guadalupe

The notion of broken $k$-diamond partitions was introduced by Andrews and Paule. Let $\Delta_{k}(n)$ denote the number of broken $k$-diamond partitions of $n$ for a fixed positive integer $k$. In this paper, we establish new infinite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Dazhao Tang

In 2021 da Silva, Hirschhorn, and Sellers studied a wide variety of congruences for the $k$-elongated plane partition function $d_k(n)$ by various primes. They also conjectured the existence of an infinite congruence family modulo…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-30 James A. Sellers , Nicolas Allen Smoot

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

The notion of broken $k$-diamond partitions was introduced by Andrews and Paule. Let $\Delta_k(n)$ denote the number of broken k-diamond partitions of $n$. They also posed three conjectures on the congruences of $\Delta_2(n)$ modulo 2, 5…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-15 William Y. C. Chen , Anna R. B. Fan , Rebecca T. Yu

In 2007, Andrews and Paule introduced the family of functions $\Delta_k(n)$, which enumerate the number of broken $k$-diamond partitions for a fixed positive integer $k$. In 2013, Radu and Sellers completely characterized the parity of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Dandan Chen , Rong Chen , Siyu Yin

Recently, Andrews and Paule introduced a partition function $PDN1(N)$ which denotes the number of partition diamonds with $(n+1)$ copies of $n$ where summing the parts at the links gives $N$. They also presented the generating function for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Julia Q. D. Du , Olivia X. M. Yao

For an integer $c\geq 1$, let $a_c(n)$ count the number of generalized cubic partitions of $n$, which are partitions of $n$ whose even parts may appear in $c$ different colors, and $d_c(n)$ count the number of partitions obtained by adding…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Russelle Guadalupe

The enumeration $d_k(n)$ of $k$-elongated plane partition diamonds has emerged as a generalization of the classical integer partition function $p(n)$. We have discovered an infinite congruence family for $d_5(n)$ modulo powers of 5.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Koustav Banerjee , Nicolas Allen Smoot

We prove new formulas for $\operatorname{DD}_k(n)$, the number of plane partition diamonds of length $k$ of $n$, and, also, for its polynomial part.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Mircea Cimpoeas , Alexandra Teodor

Let $\Delta_{k}(n)$ denote the number of $k$-broken diamond partitions of $n$. Quite recently, the second author proved an infinite family of congruences modulo 25 for $\Delta_{k}(n)$ with the help of modular forms. In this paper, we aim to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Shane Chern , Dazhao Tang

We prove two conjectures of Paule and Radu from their recent paper on broken k-diamond partitions.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-29 Marie Jameson

In this note, we will give proofs of two congruences involving broken 3-diamond partitions and broken 5-diamond partitions which were conjectured by Peter Paule and Silviu Radu.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-17 Xinhua Xiong

Plane partition diamonds were introduced by Andrews, Paule, and Riese (2001) as part of their study of MacMahon's $\Omega$-operator in search for integer partition identities. More recently, Dockery, Jameson, Sellers, and Wilson (2024)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Matthias Beck , Kobe Wijesekera

George Andrews and Peter Paule have recently conjectured an infinite family of congruences modulo powers of 3 for the 2-elongated plane partition function $d_2(n)$. This congruence family appears difficult to prove by classical methods. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Nicolas Allen Smoot

In this work we introduce new combinatorial objects called $d$--fold partition diamonds, which generalize both the classical partition function and the partition diamonds of Andrews, Paule and Riese, and we set $r_d(n)$ to be their counting…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Dalen Dockery , Marie Jameson , James A. Sellers , Samuel Wilson

Over the last century, a large variety of infinite congruence families have been discovered and studied, exhibiting a great variety with respect to their difficulty. Major complicating factors arise from the topology of the associated…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Koustav Banerjee , Nicolas Allen Smoot

In 2007, Andrews and Paule introduced the broken $k$-diamond partition function $\Delta_{k}(n)$, which has received a lot of researches on the arithmetic propertises. In this paper, we will prove the broken $k$-diamond partition function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Eve Y. Y. Yang

The study of integer partitions and their congruences dates back to 1919 when Ramanujan discovered his famous congruences for the partition function, $p(n)$. Since then, many other kinds of partition functions have been discovered, as well…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Samuel Wilson
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