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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

Previous work showed that, for $\nu_2(n)$ the number of partitions of $n$ into exactly two part sizes, one has $\nu_2(16n + 14) \equiv 0 \pmod{4}$. The earlier proof required the technology of modular forms, and a combinatorial proof was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Eli R. DeWitt , William J. Keith

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

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

Let p(n, k) denote the number of partitions of n into parts less than or equal to k. We show several properties of this function modulo 2. First, we prove that for fixed positive integers k and m, p(n,k) is periodic modulo m. Using this, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Kedar Karhadkar

In this paper, we consider plane partitions $\text{PP}(\lambda; m)$ of a given shape $\lambda$, with entries at most $m$. We prove that the distributions of two statistics on $\text{PP}(\lambda; m)$ coincide: one is the number of rows…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Takuya Inoue

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 Newman introduced the mex-function $\text{mex}_{A,a}(\lambda)$ for an integer partition $\lambda$ of a positive integer $n$ as the smallest positive integer congruent to $a$ modulo $A$ that is not a part of $\lambda$. They then…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Subhrajyoti Bhattacharyya , Rupam Barman , Ajit Singh , Apu Kumar Saha

A partition of degree $n$ is a decomposition $n=i_1+i_2+\dots+i_q$, where ${i_1,i_2,\dots,i_q}$ are positive integers called the parts of the partition. Let $\lambda>0$ be an integer. The partition is said to be a $\lambda$--partition if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-22 F. V. Weinstein

This paper confirms a conjecture of Amdeberhan and Moll that the power of 2 dividing the number of plane partitions in an n-cube is greater than the power of 2 dividing the number of totally symmetric plane partitions in the same cube when…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-03 William J. Keith

We find and prove a class of congruences modulo 4 for Andrews' partition with certain ternary quadratic form. We also discuss distribution of $\overline{\mathcal{EO}}(n)$ and further prove that $\overline{\mathcal{EO}}(n)\equiv0\pmod4$ for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Dandan Chen , Rong Chen

Inspired by the recent work by Nadji, Ahmia and Ram\'irez, we examined the arithmetic properties of $\bar{B}_{l_1,l_2} (n)$, the number of overpartitions of n whose parts are neither divisible by $l_1$ nor divisible by $l_2$. In particular,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Anakha V

Recently Andrews and Bachraoui proved identities relating certain restricted partitions into distinct even parts with restricted 4-regular partitions by the theory of basic hypergeometric series. They also posed a question regarding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Dandan Chen , Ziyin Zou

Based on two involutions and a bijection, we completely determine the difference between the number of $\ell$-regular partitions of $n$ into an even number of parts and into an odd number of parts for all positive integers $n$ and $\ell>1$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Ji-Cai Liu

Bressoud introduced the partition function $B(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_\lambda;\eta,k,r;n)$, which counts the number of partitions with certain difference conditions. Bressoud posed a conjecture on the generating function for the partition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Y. H. Chen , Thomas Y. He

We give a possible explanation for the mystery of a missing number in the statement of a problem that asks for the non-negative integers to be partitioned into three subsets. We interpret the missing number as one of the clues that can lead…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Eunice Krinsky , Serban Raianu , Alexander Wittmond

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

We introduce a statistic $\pmaj$ on partitions of $[n]=\{1,2,..., n\}$, and show that it is equidistributed with the number of 2-crossings over partitions of $[n]$ with given sets of minimal block elements and maximal block elements. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William Y. C Chen , Ira M. Gessel , Catherine H. Yan , Arthur L. B. Yang

We prove specific biases in the number of occurrences of parts belonging to two different residue classes $a$ and $b$, modulo a fixed non-negative integer $m$, for the sets of unrestricted partitions, partitions into distinct parts, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Michael J. Schlosser , Nian Hong Zhou

In this paper, we generalize a few important results in Integer Partitions; namely the results known as Stanley's theorem and Elder's theorem, and the congruence results proposed by Ramanujan for the partition function. We generalize the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Manosij Ghosh Dastidar , Sourav Sen Gupta