Arithmetic properties of certain t-regular partitions

Publication date 4 September 2022

Abstract: For a positive integer

t g e q 2

, let

b_{t} (n)

denote the number of

t

-regular partitions of a nonnegative integer

n

. Motivated by some recent conjectures of Keith and Zanello, we establish infinite families of congruences modulo

2

for

b_{9} (n)

and

b_{19} (n)

. We prove some specific cases of two conjectures of Keith and Zanello on self-similarities of

b_{9} (n)

and

b_{19} (n)

modulo

2

. We also relate

b_{t} (n)

to the ordinary partition function, and prove that

b_{t} (n)

satisfies the Ramanujan's famous congruences for some infinite families of

t

. For

t i n 6, 10, 14, 15, 18, 20, 22, 26, 27, 28

, Keith and Zanello conjectured that there are no integers

A > 0

and

B g e q 0

for which

b_{t} (A n + B) e q u i v 0 p m o d 2

for all

n g e q 0

. We prove that, for any

t g e q 2

and prime

e l l

, there are infinitely many arithmetic progressions

A n + B

for which

s u m_{n = 0}^{i n f t y} b_{t} (A n + B) q^{n} o t e q u i v 0 p m o d e l l

. Next, we obtain quantitative estimates for the distributions of

b_{6} (n), b_{10} (n)

and

b_{14} (n)

modulo 2. We further study the odd densities of certain infinite families of eta-quotients related to the 7-regular and

13

-regular partition functions.

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