Congruences for Generalized Frobenius Partitions with an Arbitrarily Large Number of Colors

zbMATH Open1284.11136arXiv1305.6031MaRDI QIDQ5402467FDOQ5402467

Authors: James A. Sellers, Frank G. Garvan 

Publication date: 7 March 2014

Abstract: In his 1984 AMS Memoir, George Andrews defined the family of $k$--colored generalized Frobenius partition functions. These are denoted by $cph{i}_k(n)$ where $kgeq1$ is the number of colors in question. In that Memoir, Andrews proved (among many other things) that, for all $ngeq0,$ $cph{i}_2(5n+3)equiv0pmod5.$ Soon after, many authors proved congruence properties for various $k$--colored generalized Frobenius partition functions, typically with a small number of colors. Work on Ramanujan--like congruence properties satisfied by the functions $cph{i}_k(n)$ continues, with recent works completed by Baruah and Sarmah as well as the author. Unfortunately, in all cases, the authors restrict their attention to small values of $k.$ This is often due to the difficulty in finding a "nice" representation of the generating function for $cph{i}_k(n)$ for large $k.$ Because of this, no Ramanujan--like congruences are known where $k$ is large. In this note, we rectify this situation by proving several infinite families of congruences for $cph{i}_k(n)$ where $k$ is allowed to grow arbitrarily large. The proof is truly elementary, relying on a generating function representation which appears in Andrews' Memoir but has gone relatively unnoticed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6031

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zbMATH Keywords

generating functionRamanujan-like congruenceFrobenius partition function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Analytic theory of partitions (11P82) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83) Partition identities; identities of Rogers-Ramanujan type (11P84)

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