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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

Recently, Chan and Wang (Fractional powers of the generating function for the partition function. Acta Arith. 187(1), 59--80 (2019)) studied the fractional powers of the generating function for the partition function and found several…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Nayandeep Deka Baruah , Hirakjyoti Das

Basis partitions are minimal partitions corresponding to successive rank vectors. We show combinatorially how basis partitions can be generated from primary partitions which are equivalent to the Rogers-Ramanujan partitions. This leads to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Krishnaswami Alladi

The study of Ramanujan-type congruences for functions specific to additive number theory has a long and rich history. Motivated by recent connections between divisor sums and overpartitions via congruences in arithmetic progressions, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-12 William Craig , Mircea Merca

We give congruences modulo powers of 2 for the Fourier coefficients of certain level 2 modular functions with poles only at 0, answering a question posed by Andersen and the first author. The congruences involve a modulus that depends on…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-02 Paul Jenkins , Ryan Keck , Eric Moss

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

Ramanujan listed several q-series identities in his lost notebook. The most well known q-series identities are the Rogers-Ramanujan type identities which are first discovered by Rogers and then rediscovered by Ramanujan. In this paper, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Sabi Biswas , Nipen Saikia

The arithmetic properties of the ordinary partition function $p(n)$ have been the topic of intensive study for the past century. Ramanujan proved that there are linear congruences of the form $p(\ell n+\beta)\equiv 0\pmod\ell$ for the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Scott Ahlgren , Olivia Beckwith , Martin Raum

In a recent paper, Jin, Liu, and Xia \cite{JLX} presented some modulo 4 congruences for $\overline{spt2}(n)$, the number of smallest parts in the overpartitions of $n$ where the smallest part is even and is not overlined. In this paper, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Robson da Silva

It is proved that the number of 9-regular partitions of n is divisible by 3 when n is congruent to 3 mod 4, and by 6 when n is congruent to 13 mod 16. An infinite family of congruences mod 3 holds in other progressions modulo powers of 4…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-07 William J. Keith

We study a curious class of partitions, the parts of which obey an exceedingly strict congruence condition we refer to as "sequential congruence": the $m$th part is congruent to the $(m+1)$th part modulo $m$, with the smallest part…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Maxwell Schneider , Robert Schneider

For rational $\alpha$, the fractional partition functions $p_\alpha(n)$ are given by the coefficients of the generating function $(q;q)^\alpha_\infty$. When $\alpha=-1$, one obtains the usual partition function. Congruences of the form…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Erin Bevilacqua , Kapil Chandran , Yunseo Choi

In 2012, Peter Paule and Cristian-Silviu Radu proved an infinite family of Ramanujan type congruences for $2$-colored Frobenius partitions $c\phi_2$ introduced by George Andrews. Recently, Frank Garvan, James Sellers and Nicolas Smoot…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Kangyu Wang , Yining Wang

In this article, we first investigate the partitions whose parts are congruent to $a$ or $b$ modulo $k$ with the aid of separable integer partition classes with modulus $k$ introduced by Andrews. Then, we introduce the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Thomas Y. He , C. S. Huang , H. X. Li , X. Zhang

Recently, Andrews, Hirschhorn and Sellers have proven congruences modulo 3 for four types of partitions using elementary series manipulations. In this paper, we generalize their congruences using arithmetic properties of certain quadratic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Jeremy Lovejoy , Robert Osburn

In this paper we introduce a class of sequences connected with the $m$--ary partition function and investigate their congruence properties. In particular, we get facts about the sequences of $m$--ary partitions $(b_{m}(n))_{m\in\mathbb{N}}$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Błażej Żmija

We study certain arithmetic properties of an analogue $B(n)$ of Lin's restricted partition function that counts the number of partition triples $\pi=(\pi_1,\pi_2,\pi_3)$ of $n$ such that $\pi_1$ and $\pi_2$ comprise distinct odd parts and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Russelle Guadalupe

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

In this paper, we establish two new Ramanujan-type congruences for the overpartition function: $\overline{p}(11\times(8n+5))\equiv 0 \pmod{11}$ and $\overline{p}(13\times 2^6(8n+7))\equiv 0 \pmod{13}$. The proofs rely on the theory of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 XuanLing Wei

In 2022, Broudy and Lovejoy extensively studied the function $S(n)$ which counts the number of overpartitions of \emph{Schur-type}. In particular, they proved a number of congruences satisfied by $S(n)$ modulo $2$, $4$, and $5$. In this…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Shane Chern , Robson da Silva , James A. Sellers