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We give short elementary expositions of combinatorial proofs of some variants of Euler's partitition problem that were first addressed analytically by George Andrews, and later combinatorially by others. Our methods, based on ideas from a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Aritro Pathak

Andrews and El Bachraoui recently studied integer partitions where the smallest part is repeated a specified number of times and any other parts are distinct. Their results included two ``surprising identities'' for which they requested…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Brian Hopkins

We obtain a combinatorial proof of a surprising weighted partition equality of Berkovich and Uncu. Our proof naturally leads to a formula for the number of partitions with a given parity of the smallest part, in terms of S(i), the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Damanvir Singh Binner

Noting a curious link between Andrews' even-odd crank and the Stanley rank, we adopt a combinatorial approach building on the map of conjugation and continue the study of integer partitions with parts separated by parity. Our motivation is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Shishuo Fu , Dazhao Tang

The purpose of this note is to introduce a new approach to the study of one of the most basic and seemingly intractable problems in partition theory, namely the conjecture that the partition function $p(n)$ is equidistributed modulo 2. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Samuel D. Judge , William J. Keith , Fabrizio Zanello

Let $B_{k,i}(n)$ be the number of partitions of $n$ with certain difference condition and let $A_{k,i}(n)$ be the number of partitions of $n$ with certain congruence condition. The Rogers-Ramanujan-Gordon theorem states that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 William Y. C. Chen , Doris D. M. Sang , Diane Y. H. Shi

The Alder-Andrews Theorem, a partition inequality generalizing Euler's partition identity, the first Rogers-Ramanujan identity, and a theorem of Schur to $d$-distinct partitions of $n$, was proved successively by Andrews in 1971, Yee in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Leah Sturman , Holly Swisher

The partition perimeter is a statistic defined to be one less than the sum of the number of parts and the largest part. Recently, Amdeberhan, Andrews, and Ballantine proved the following analog of Glaisher's theorem: for all $m \geq 2$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Hunter Waldron

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

We prove that the number of even parts and the number of times that parts are repeated have the same distribution over integer partitions with a fixed perimeter. This refines Straub's analog of Euler's Odd-Distinct partition theorem. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Zhicong Lin , Huan Xiong , Sherry H. F. Yan

The number of sequences of odd length in strict partitions (denoted as $\mathrm{sol}$), which plays a pivotal role in the first paper of this series, is investigated in different contexts, both new and old. Namely, we first note a direct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Shishuo Fu , Haijun Li

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

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

Euler's classical identity states that the number of partitions of an integer into odd parts and distinct parts are equinumerous. Franklin gave a generalization by considering partitions with exactly $j$ different multiples of $r$, for a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Subhash Chand Bhoria , Pramod Eyyunni , Bibekananda Maji

Euler showed that if an odd perfect number $N$ exists, it must consist of two parts $N=q^k n^2$, with $q$ prime, $q \equiv k \equiv 1 \pmod{4}$, and gcd$(q,n)=1$. Dris conjectured that $q^k < n$. We first show that $q<n$ for all odd perfect…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Patrick Brown

Andrews introduced the partition function $\overline{C}_{k, i}(n)$, called singular overpartition, which counts the number of overpartitions of $n$ in which no part is divisible by $k$ and only parts $\equiv \pm i\pmod{k}$ may be overlined.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Rupam Barman , Chiranjit Ray

In this article, we refine a result of Andrews and Newman, that is, the sum of minimal excludants over all the partitions of a number $n$ equals the number of partitions of $n$ into distinct parts with two colors. As a consequence, we find…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Nayandeep Deka Baruah , Subhash Chand Bhoria , Pramod Eyyunni , Bibekananda Maji

Numerous congruences for partitions with designated summands have been proven since first being introduced and studied by Andrews, Lewis, and Lovejoy. This paper explicitly characterizes the number of partitions with designated summands…

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 2024-05-31 James A. Sellers

Refined versions, analytic and combinatorial, are given for classical integer partition theorems. The examples include the Rogers-Ramanujan identities, the Gollnitz-Gordon identities, Euler's odd=distinct theorem, and the Andrews-Gordon…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Kathleen O'Hara , Dennis Stanton