Proof of a conjecture of Hirschhorn and Sellers on overpartitions

DOI10.4064/AA163-1-5MaRDI QIDQ5407562zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors William Y. C. Chen, Ernest X. W. Xia

Publication date 7 April 2014

Published in Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4155

zbMATH Keywords

congruencetheta functiondissection formulaoverpartition\((p,k)\)-parametrization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83)

Abstract: Let $$ denote the number of overpartitions of $n$. It was conjectured by Hirschhorn and Sellers that $$ for $ngeq0$. Employing 2-dissection formulas of quotients of theta functions due to Ramanujan, and Hirschhorn and Sellers, we obtain a generating function for $$ modulo 5. Using the $(p,k)$-parametrization of theta functions given by Alaca, Alaca and Williams, we give a proof of the congruence $$. Combining this congruence and the congruence $$ obtained by Hirschhorn and Sellers, and Fortin, Jacob and Mathieu, we give a proof of the conjecture of Hirschhorn and Sellers.

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