Partition Frequency Moments: Modularity and Congruences
Abstract
We study frequency moments of partition statistics arising from Euler products via a transform that expresses the moment generating functions as times explicit divisor--sum series determined by . When is modular (typically an --quotient), this yields (quasi)modular forms whose coefficients can be projected to arithmetic progressions and certified modulo primes by a Sturm bound, giving an effective pipeline for detecting and proving Ramanujan--type congruences for frequency moments. For ordinary partitions we recover and certify several congruences for odd moments in nonzero residue classes (e.g.\ and ). As a second input, we apply the same pipeline to overpartitions and certify a family of zero--class congruences (including ), exhibiting a sharp contrast with the ordinary partition case: no nonzero residue--class congruences are observed for overpartition moments in our scan range. We also demonstrate that filtering the statistic via the Glaisher--character dictionary can itself create new Ramanujan--type progressions, e.g.\ a quadratic twist yields the certified congruence .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.09766,
title = {Partition Frequency Moments: Modularity and Congruences},
author = {Hartosh Singh Bal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.09766},
year = {2026}
}