A bijection for Lebesgue's partition identity in the spirit of Sylvester (Q1336644)

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A bijection for Lebesgue's partition identity in the spirit of Sylvester
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    A bijection for Lebesgue's partition identity in the spirit of Sylvester (English)
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    3 May 1995
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    By analysing hooks in the 2-modular Ferrers diagrams of partitions, a combinatorial proof of a well-known identity due to Lebesgue is given. The explicit bijection constructed here goes along the lines of a correspondence set up by Sylvester in his classic paper on partitions of 1882. The method of the author not only leads to generalisations of the Euler-Sylvester identities on odd parts and distinct parts, but applies to the analogous situation given by \(p\)-modular diagrams.
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    Lebesgue's identity
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    Gaussian polynomials
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    modular diagrams
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    partitions
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    odd parts
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    distinct parts
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