Shifted distinct-part partition identities in arithmetic progressions

DOI10.1007/S00026-017-0360-2MaRDI QIDQ1682609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ethan Alwaise, Robert Dicks, Jason Friedman, Lianyan Gu, Zach Harner, Madeline Locus, Ian Wagner, Josh Weinstock, Hannah Larson

Publication date 30 November 2017

Published in Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07943

zbMATH Keywords

partitionscongruencesmodular forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences for modular and (p)-adic modular forms (11F33) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83)

Abstract: The partition function $p(n)$, which counts the number of partitions of a positive integer $n$, is widely studied. Here, we study partition functions $p_S(n)$ that count partitions of $n$ into distinct parts satisfying certain congruence conditions. A shifted partition identity is an identity of the form $p_{S_1}(n-H)=p_{S_2}(n)$ for all $n$ in some arithmetic progression. Several identities of this type have been discovered, including two infinite families found by Alladi. In this paper, we use the theory of modular functions to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for such an identity to exist. In addition, for two specific cases, we extend Alladi's theorem to other arithmetic progressions.

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