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Motivated by earlier work of P.~A.~MacMahon and recent contributions of T.~Amdeberhan, G.~E.~Andrews, K.~Ono, A.~Singh, and R.~Tauraso on higher-order partition enumerants, we study a class of $q$-series arising from nested divisor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Mircea Merca

A century ago, P. A. MacMahon introduced two families of generating functions, $$ \sum_{1\leq n_1<n_2<\cdots<n_t}\prod_{k=1}^t\frac{q^{n_k}}{(1-q^{n_k})^2} \quad\text{ and } \sum_{\substack{1\leq n_1<n_2<\cdots<n_t\\…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 James A. Sellers , Roberto Tauraso

In 1920, P. A. MacMahon generalized the (classical) notion of divisor sums by relating it to the theory of partitions of integers. In this paper, we extend the idea of MacMahon. In doing so we reveal a wealth of divisibility theorems and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Tewodros Amdeberhan , George E. Andrews , Roberto Tauraso

MacMahon showed that the generating function for partitions into at most $k$ parts can be decomposed into a partial fractions-type sum indexed by the partitions of $k$. In this present work, a generalization of MacMahon's result is given,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Andrew V. Sills

It was recently shown that $q\omega(q)$, where $\omega(q)$ is one of the third order mock theta functions, is the generating function of $p_{\omega}(n)$, the number of partitions of a positive integer $n$ such that all odd parts are less…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-15 George E. Andrews , Atul Dixit , Daniel Schultz , Ae Ja Yee

Major Percy A. MacMahon's first paper on plane partitions included a conjectured generating function for symmetric plane partitions. This conjecture was proven almost simultaneously by George Andrews and Ian Macdonald, Andrews using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David M. Bressoud

We study cylindric partitions with two-element profiles using MacMahon's partition analysis. We find explicit formulas for the generating functions of the number of cylindric partitions by first finding the recurrences using partition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Runqiao Li , Ali K. Uncu

We construct a $k$-fold $q$-series as a generating function of $k$-regular partitions for each positive integer $k$. The $k=1$ case is one of Euler's $q$-series identities pertaining to the partitions into distinct parts. The construction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Kağan Kurşungöz

In this paper, we introduce the generating functions of partition sequences. Partition sequences have a one-to-one correspondence with partitions. Therefore, the generating function has no multiplicity and appears meaningless initially.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Masanori Ando

Five simple guidelines are proposed to compute the generating function for the nonnegative integer solutions of a system of linear inequalities. In contrast to other approaches, the emphasis is on deriving recurrences. We show how to use…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sylvie Corteel , Sunyoung Lee , Carla Savage

Recently, Andrews and Dastidar introduced the partition function $SOME(n)$, defined as the sum of all the odd parts in the partitions of $n$ minus the sum of all the even parts in the partitions of $n$. They derived its generating function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-16 D. S. Gireesh , B. Hemanthkumar

Andrews, Lewis and Lovejoy introduced the partition function PD(n) as the number of partitions of $n$ with designated summands, where we assume that among parts with equal size, exactly one is designated. They proved that PD(3n+2) is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-13 William Y. C. Chen , Kathy Q. Ji , Hai-Tao Jin , Erin Y. Y. Shen

In this article, we consider the weighted partition function $p_f(n)$ given by the generating series $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} p_f(n)z^n = \prod_{n\in\mathbb{N}^{*}}(1-z^n)^{-f(n)}$, where we restrict the class of weight functions to strongly…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Madhuparna Das

Let $n\geq2$ be an integer. In this paper, we study the convexity of the so-called MacMahon's $q$-Catalan polynomials $C_n(q)=\frac1{[n+1]_q}\left[ 2n \atop n \right]_q$ as functions of $q$. Along the way, several intermediate results on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Tewodros Amdeberhan

Recently, Andrews and Bachraoui considered a generating function $F_{k,m}(q)$ associated with certain two-color partitions, and conjectured that this function has non-negative coefficients for $m=1$. They showed this property for $1 \leq k…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Koustav Banerjee , Kathrin Bringmann , William J. Keith

In a previous paper of the second author with K. Ono, surprising multiplicative properties of the partition function were presented. Here, we deal with $k$-regular partitions. Extending the generating function for $k$-regular partitions…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Olivia Beckwith , Christine Bessenrodt

Recently, MacMahon's generalized sum-of-divisor functions were shown to link partitions, quasimodular forms, and q-multiple zeta values. In this paper, we explore many further properties and extensions of these. Firstly, we address a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Kathrin Bringmann , William Craig , Jan-Willem van Ittersum , Badri Vishal Pandey

In his famous 2007 paper on three dimensional quantum gravity, Witten defined candidates for the partition functions $$Z_k(q)=\sum_{n=-k}^{\infty}w_k(n)q^n$$ of potential extremal CFTs with central charges of the form $c=24k$. Although such…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Ken Ono , Larry Rolen

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

In the present work, we extend current research in a nearly-forgotten but newly revived topic, initiated by P. A. MacMahon, on a generalized notion which relates the divisor sums to the theory of integer partitions and two infinite families…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Tewodros Amdeberhan , Rupam Barman , Ajit Singh
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