Congruences for the number of spin characters of the double covers of the symmetric and alternating groups

DOI10.1016/J.AAM.2016.06.009MaRDI QIDQ308982zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rishi Nath, James A. Sellers

Publication date 6 September 2016

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02125

zbMATH Keywords

partitiongenerating functioncongruence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83)

Abstract: Let $p$ be an odd prime. The bar partitions with sign and $p$-bar-core partitions with sign respectively label the spin characters and $p$-defect zero spin characters of the double cover of the symmetric group, and by restriction, those of the alternating group. The generating functions for these objects have been determined by J. Olsson. We study these functions from an arithmetic perspective, using classical analytic tools and elementary generating function manipulation to obtain many Ramanujan-like congruences.

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