Ramanujan type congruences for a partition function (Q540040)

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Ramanujan type congruences for a partition function
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    Ramanujan type congruences for a partition function (English)
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    1 June 2011
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    Summary: We investigate the arithmetic properties of a certain function \(b(n)\) given by \[ \sum^\infty_{n=0} b(n)q^n= (q; q)^{-2}_\infty (q^2; q^2)^{-2}_\infty. \] One of our main results is \(b(9n+ 7) \equiv 0 \pmod 9\).
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    Ramanujan's cubic continued fraction
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    congruences
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    partition function
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