Addition and counting: The arithmetic of partitions

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Authors Scott Ahlgren, Ken Ono

Publication date 18 November 2001

Published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

\(L\)-functionsDyson's rank and crankHardy-Ramanujan-Rademacher formulamodular formspartitionsRamanujan's congruences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83)

Review text

The aim of this article is ``to describe to a general mathematical audience some of the important advances in partition theory over the past century and to highlight some of its connections to other areas of mathematics. The article begins with a discussion of classical results, such as Euler's generating function and recurrence, the Hardy-Ramanujan-Rademacher formula, Ramanujan's congruences, Dyson's rank and crank and some examples of Atkin. The last third of the article outlines some recent developments involving modular forms and \(L\)-functions. For a letter to the editor about this article, and Ahlgren and Ono's reply to this letter, please see [\textit{M. Hirschhorn}, Ramanujan's partition congruences, Discrete Math. 131, 351-355 (1994; Zbl 0802.05004), and \textit{S. Ahlgren} and \textit{K. Ono}, ``Response to Hirschhorn, Letters to the Editor, Notices Am. Math. Soc. 49, 758 (2002).

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